Work
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014
The tenth review of the evidence on herbicides and disease in Vietnam veterans, published in 2016.
- Dates
- 2016
What it found
Soft-tissue sarcoma (including heart) * Non-Hodgkin lymphoma * Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (including hairy cell leukemia and other chronic B-cell leukemias) * Hodgkin lymphoma Chloracne
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 11 (2018)
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The next review moved two conditions into its top category.
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam
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It began a series of reviews that ran through 2018.
Timeline 1 date
- 2016 Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014
Proof 2 sources
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2014, Summary, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies Press), 2016.
Primary record
Soft-tissue sarcoma (including heart) * Non-Hodgkin lymphoma * Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (including hairy cell leukemia and other chronic B-cell leukemias) * Hodgkin lymphoma Chloracne
The work of later committees resulted in the publication of biennial updates
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Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 11 (2018), Summary, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies Press), 2018.
Primary record
Hypertension (category change from Limited or Suggestive in Update 2014)
The committee did not reach consensus on whether the evidence regarding type 2 diabetes (mellitus) was more properly classified as Sufficient or Limited or Suggestive.
The available epidemiologic studies are of insufficient quality, consistency, or statistical power to permit a conclusion regarding the presence or absence of an association.
Birth defects in offspring of exposed people, including spina bifida
the distinctions among categories are based on statistical association and not on strict causality.
human populations, not to the likelihood that any individual’s health problem is associated with or caused by the herbicides in question.
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