Characterizing exposure of veterans to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam
Subtitle: final report
By: Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780309582711
Subjects: Herbicides; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Health risk assessment; Veterans; MEDICAL; Health aspects; 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid; War; Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin; Adverse effects; Toxicology; 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid; Environmental Exposure; Agent Orange
Notes: Title from PDF t.p. (National Academies Press, viewed Apr. 11, 2012).

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