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Article: Air Force Study Links Agent Orange To Diabetes in Vietnam War Veterans.(Brief Article)
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- Chemical Market Reporter
- Article date:
- April 17, 2000
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A US AIR FORCE study shows a significant link between Agent Orange and diabetes in veterans who took part in spraying the dioxin-laced jungle defoliant during the Vietnam War.
The report shows a 47 percent increase in diabetes among US veterans with high levels of exposure. It could lead to new health benefits for thousands of veterans of the war that ended in 1975.
The statistical study of 1,000 Air Force veterans who serviced or flew aircraft that sprayed Agent Orange will be reviewed by experts to determine if diabetes should be added to nine other illnesses linked to dioxin.
"This report includes the strongest evidence to date that exposure ...