Characterizing exposure of veterans to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam : final report /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Washington (DC) : National Academies Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subject:	Agent Orange -- Health aspects. Agent Orange -- Toxicology. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Health risk assessment -- United States. Agent Orange -- Health aspects. Agent Orange -- Toxicology. Veterans -- Health risk assessment. Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins -- adverse effects. Environmental Exposure. Herbicides -- adverse effects. Veterans Health. Vietnam Conflict. United States. United States. Vietnam. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11134663

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Other authors / contributors:	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam.
ISBN:	0309582717 9780309582711 1280246278 9781280246272
Notes:	Title from table of contents page. Includes bibliographical references. Support for this project was provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The project was supported by Cooperative Agreement V101(93)P-1637 between the National Academy of Sciences and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The views presented in this report are those of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam and are not necessarily those of the funding agencies. Version viewed December 17, 2014.
Summary:	The intent of the present report is to summarize briefly the work done by the contractor over the life of the study and to serve as a vehicle for cataloging and transmitting that work to VA. The sections below delineate the work of the Columbia University researchers as it evolved from proposal through delivery. It is based on the material provided by the Columbia University researchers in their 6-month progress reports, presentations, draft materials, and final report; and it quotes freely and extensively from these materials.
Other form:	Print version: Vietnam, Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in. Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam : Final Report. Washington : National Academies Press, ©1900

Table of Contents:

Introduction and background
Contract summary
Project 1: military unit and herbicide spraying databases, and exposure assessment model development
Project 2: Covariates, confounders, and consistency: characterizing the Vietnam veteran for epidemiologic studies
Project 3: evaluation and standardization of military records for use in epidemiologic studies
Project 4: biomarkers of TCDD (dioxin) exposure in Vietnam veterans
Project 5: analysis of IARC tissue samples of selected Vietnamese for dioxin and dibenzofuran levels in archived adipose tissue
Findings, conclusions, and recommendations.

Characterizing exposure of veterans to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam : final report /

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