Title Gulf War and health. Volume 3, Fuels, combustion products, and propellants / Committee on Gulf War and Health: Literature Review of Pesticides and Solvents, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 499 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Considerations in identifying and evaluating the literature -- 3. Uncombusted fuels and combustion products: background information -- 4. Cancer -- 5. Respiratory outcomes -- 6. Cardiovascular disease -- 7. Reproductive and developmental outcomes -- 8. Other health outcomes -- 9. Hydrazines and nitric acid Summary "The third in a series of congressionally mandated reports on Gulf War veterans health, this volume evaluates the long-term, human health effects associated with exposure to selected environmental agents, pollutants, and synthetic chemical compounds believed to have been present during the Gulf War. The committee specifically evaluated the literature on hydrogen sulfide, combustion products, hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid. Both the epidemiologic and toxicologic literature were reviewed."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (National Academies Press, viewed Mar. 27, 2006) Subject Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Health aspects -- United States Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Veterans -- Diseases Persian Gulf War, 1991. Persian Gulf syndrome. Gulf War Persian Gulf Syndrome Petroleum -- toxicity Petroleum -- poisoning Fossil Fuels -- poisoning Fossil Fuels -- toxicity HISTORY -- Military -- Persian Gulf War (1991) War -- Health aspects Persian Gulf syndrome Veterans -- Diseases SUBJECT United States Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Gulf War and Health: Literature Review of Pesticides and Solvents, sponsoring body. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Promotion, associated name ISBN 9780309547369 0309547369

Other Titles Fuels, combustion products, and propellants

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