Institute of Medicine Update on Veterans and Agent Orange: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, April 16, 1996U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 132 pages |
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Agent Orange Agent Orange Act anencephaly anomalies asked association between exposure association between herbicide association exists birth defects birth defects study Chairman chloracne Conclusions control veterans Department of Veterans dioxin exposure dioxin levels Environmental epidemiologic epidemiologic studies ERICKSON EVANS exposed exposure to Agent exposure to herbicides folic acid Force Health Study GUTIERREZ health effects health outcomes herbicide exposure herbicides or dioxin HUTCHINSON increased risk Institute of Medicine IOM report issue KENNEDY KIZER limited or suggestive limited/suggestive evidence MICHALEK neural tube defects Operation Ranch Hand paternal dioxin peripheral neuropathy porphyria cutanea tarda prostate cancer questions Ranch Hand study reproductive outcomes risks for fathering Scientific Literature served in Vietnam SMITH specific spina bifida statement statistical association stillbirth suggestive evidence Summary of VAO task force TCDD TEJEDA testimony Thank TOLLERUD Update Veterans Affairs VETERANS AND AGENT Vietnam veterans women
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Page 98 - The available studies are of insufficient quality, consistency or statistical power to permit a conclusion regarding the presence or absence of a causal association, or no data on cancer in humans are available.
Page 90 - Agent Orange Act of 1991." This legislation directed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to request the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct a comprehensive review and evaluation of scientific and medical information regarding the health effects of exposure to Agent Orange, other herbicides used in Vietnam, and the various chemical components of these herbicides, including dioxin.
Page 102 - Filippini G, Bordo B, Crenna P, Massetto N, Musicco M, Boeri R. 1981. Relationship between clinical and electrophysiological findings and indicators of heavy exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
Page 75 - Associate Professor of Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California WILLIAM NICHOLSON.
Page 75 - University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine San Francisco, California...
Page 75 - Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Page 70 - Dimes defines a birth defect as an abnormality of structure, function, or metabolism, whether genetically determined or a result of environmental interference during embryonic or fetal life.
Page 90 - Academy shall determine (to the extent that available scientific data permit meaningful determinations) — (A) whether a statistical association with herbicide exposure exists, taking into account the strength of the scientific evidence and the appropriateness of the statistical and...
Page 78 - All committee members were selected because they are leading experts in their fields, have no conflicts of interest with regard to the matter under study, and have taken no public positions concerning the potential health effects of herbicides in Vietnam veterans or related aspects of herbicide or TCDD exposure. Biographical sketches of committee members and staff appear in Appendix D.
Page 95 - There are several adequate studies covering the full range of levels of exposure that human beings are known to encounter, that are mutually consistent in not showing a positive association between exposure to herbicides and the outcome at any level of exposure. A conclusion of "no association" is inevitably limited to the conditions, level of exposure, and length of observation covered by the available studies.