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1 online resource |
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Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
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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 |
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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 |
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Title from table of contents page |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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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 |
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Version viewed December 17, 2014 |
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Agent Orange -- Health aspects
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Agent Orange -- Toxicology
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Health risk assessment -- United States
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Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins -- adverse effects
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Environmental Exposure
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Herbicides -- adverse effects
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Veterans Health
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Vietnam Conflict
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MEDICAL -- Toxicology.
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Agent Orange -- Health aspects
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Agent Orange -- Toxicology
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Veterans -- Health risk assessment
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United States |
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Vietnam |
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United States
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Electronic book
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam.
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0309582717 |
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9780309582711 |
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1280246278 |
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9781280246272 |
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