Table of Contents: Characterizing exposure of veterans to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam :

Corporate Author:	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Subjects:	Agent Orange > Health aspects. Agent Orange > Toxicology. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > United States. > Health risk assessment Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin > adverse effects. Environmental Exposure. Herbicides > adverse effects. Veterans Health. Vietnam Conflict. MEDICAL > Toxicology. Veterans > Health risk assessment. United States. Vietnam.
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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.