We studied diabetes in Air Force veterans exposed to Agent Orange and its contaminant 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (dioxin) during the Vietnam War. The index subjects of the Air Force's ongoing 20-year prospective epidemiological study were veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the unit responsible for aerial herbicide spraying in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. Other Air Force veterans who served in Southeast Asia during the same period but were not involved with ...
The Air Force Health Study (AFHS) is a prospective epidemiological study of the health, mortality, and reproductive outcomes of veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the unit responsible for aerially spraying herbicides in Vietnam from 1962 to 1971. The study began in 1982 and concludes in 2006. This report updates the authors' mortality findings published in 2005 (deaths through December, 1999) by summarizing current all-cause and cause-specific post-service mortality in veterans ...
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