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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827554303321

Titolo

Veterans and Agent Orange : update 1998  / / Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1999

ISBN

0-309-17328-0

1-282-08201-9

9786612082016

0-309-52468-7

0-585-16243-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (623 p.)

Disciplina

363.17/9

Soggetti

Agent Orange - Health aspects

Agent Orange - Toxicology

Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Veterans - Health risk assessment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Executive Summary -- 2 Veterans and Agent Orange: Previous IOM Reports -- 3 Toxicology -- 4 Methodologic Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence -- 5 Exposure Assessment -- 6 Epidemiologic Studies -- 7 Cancer -- 8 Latency and Cancer Risk -- 9 Reproductive Effects -- 10 Neurobehavioral Disorders -- 11 Other Health Effects -- Appendix A Information Gathering -- Appendix B ICD·9 Codes for Cancer Outcomes -- Appendix C Committee and Staff Biographies -- Index.