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Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004 Disposition of the Air Force Health Study Other Related Titles Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Final Report (2003) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 40   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 40 Front Matter (R1-R11) Introduction and Background (1-6) Contract Summary (7-10) Project 1: Military Unit and Herbicide Spraying Databases, and Exposure Assessment Model Development (11-25) Project 2: Covariates, Confounders, and Consistency: Characterizing the Vietnam Veteran for Epidemiologic Studies (26-30) Project 3: Evaluation and Standardization of Military Records for Use in Epidemiologic Studies (31-32) Project 4: Biomarkers of TCDD (Dioxin) Exposure in Vietnam Veterans (33-33) Project 5: Analysis of IARC Tissue Samples of Selected Vietnamese for Dioxin and Dibenzofuran Levels in Archived Adipose Tissue (34-35) Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations (36-37) References (38-39) Appendix A: Materials from Contractor (40-44) Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies (45-48)

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Characterizing Exposure ... Final Report Appendix A Papers, Reports, and Other Materials Prepared Under the Contract with the Columbia University Researchers Publisher! papers Stellman JM, Stellman SD, Christian R. Weber T. Tomasallo, C. 2003. The extent and patterns of usage of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam. Nature 422~6933~:681-687. Steliman SD, StelIman JM, Weber T. Tomasallo C, Steliman AB, Christian R. 2003. A geographic information system for characterizing exposure to Agent Orange anal other herbicides in Vietnam. Environmental Health Perspectives. 111 (3~:321-328. Manuscripts in-press or accepted! for publication Koenen KC, Stellman JM, Steliman SD, Sommer JF Jr. 2003. Risk factors for course of PTSD among Vietnam veterans: a 14-year follow-up of American Legionnaires. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 7 1 (64: tin press]. Steliman SD, Stellman JM. 2003 Exposure opportunity models for Agent Orange, dioxin, and other military herbicides used in Vietnam, 1961 -1971. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology (accepted for publication). Koenen KC, Stellman JM, Stellman SD, Sommer JF. Persistence of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among Vietnam Veterans. American Journal of Psychiatry (revision submitted Aciclitional papers addressing topics discussed in the Contractor's Final Report are uncler preparation. A-1

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Characterizing Exposure ... Final Report Other reports Stellman IM, Stellman SD. 2003. Contractor's Final Report: Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides in Vietnam. Submitted to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, in fulfillment of Subcontract VA-5 124-98-0019, June 30, 2003. Characterizing Exposure to Agent Orange and other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: An Epidern~ologist's Guide to Useful Military Records Version 1.1, June 26, 2003. 13 pages. (available as Appendix C of the Contractor's Final Report...~. Presentations (partial listing) Stellman JM. Agent Orange: geographical distribution, fate and transport. NIEHS Ad Hoc Panel, Monterey, CA. August Id, 2000 Stellman SD, Koenen K, Stellman JM. Enduring consequences of exposure to combat in Vietnam. American College of Epidemiology, Atlanta, GA. September 20, 2000. Stellman SD, Stellman JM, Christian R. Modeling veterans' exposure opportunity for herbicides in Vietnam using expanded and cleaned HERBS data files. Symposium on assessing military exposures: methods And lessons learned from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. International Society for Exposure Assessment, Monterey, CA. October 20, 2000. Koenen K, Stellman JM, Stellman SD, Sommer JF Jr. Social stress factors: essential components of military environmental modeling. Symposium on assessing military Exposures: Methods and lessons learned from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. International Society for Exposure Assessment, Monterey, CA. October 20, 2000. Koenen KC, Stellman JM, Stellman SD, Sommer JF. Course and risk factors for PTSD in Vietnam veterans. 16th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, San Antonio, Texas. November, 2000. A-2

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Characterizing Exposure ... Final Report StelIman IM, StelIman SD, Koenen KC, Sommer IF. Persisting social and behavioral effects of exposure to combat in Vietnam veterans. 16th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, San Antonio, Texas. November, 2000. Steliman IM, StelIman SD, Koenen KC, Sommer IF. Experiences of Vietnam era veterans with VA health care facilities. 16th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, San Antonio, Texas. November, 2000. SteIlman SD, SteIlman IM, Koenen KC, Sommer IF Ir. Long-term smoking patterns in relation to military combat in a cohort of Vietnam veterans. American Society of Preventive Oncology, New York. March 12, 2001. Steliman IM, StelIman SD, Christian R. Weber T. A comprehensive view of herbicide spray projects in the Vietnam War. International Society of Exposure Analysis, Charleston, SC. November 5, 2001. StelIman IM, StelIman SD, Christian R. Weber T. Influence of soil-specific dioxin decay rates on estimates of exposure to residual phenoxy herbicides in Vietnam. International Society of Exposure Analysis, Charleston, SC. November 5, 2001. Also presented at: US-Vietnam Scientific Conference on Agent Orange/Dioxin, Hanoi, Vietnam. March 3-6, 2002. StelIman IM, StelIman SD, Christian R. Weber T. Tomasallo C, StelIman A. The extent and usage patterns of military herbicides in Vietnam, 1961-1971: a reanalysis based on examination of newly analyzed primary source materials. US-Vietnam Scientific Conference on Agent Orange/Dioxin, Hanoi, Vietnam. March 3-6, 2002. Steliman IM, Steliman SD, Christian R. Tomasallo C, Weber T. Visualization of US Army military unit locations in relation to herbicide spraying during the Vietnam War. International Society of Exposure Analysis, Vancouver, BC. August, 2002. StelIman IM. Pane! Presentation. Ecological and Health Effects of the Vietnam War Symposium. Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven. September 13-15, 2002. A-3

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Characterizing Exposure ... Final Report Software and associated documentation Herbicide Exposure Assessment-Vietnam (HEA-V) software. Version I.0.2. April 25, 2003. A-V Manual (.PDF file). PDF dated June 24, 2003. 29 pages. Analyzing the HERBS table (.PDF file) PDF dated June 24, 2003. 6 pages. Database Used by the Herbicide Exposure Program (.PDF file) date June 24, 2003. 6 pages. Databases and associated documentation · Herbicidal spraying records (HERBS table in HEA.mdb in MEA-V software) Modeled exposure opportunity scores (EXPOSURE_MASTER contained in HEA.mdb in MEA-V software) Spray targets (TARGETS.MDB) Comprehensive Lists and coding system of military units assigned to Vietnam (UICLISTS.MDB) Locations of US Army combat support and support military units (STABLE UNITS.MDB) Digitized Soil Typology Map of Vietnam (SOIL.MDB) Locations of Army combat battalions operating in III Corps Tactical Zone, Vietnam, 1967- 1969 (BNTRAK.MDB) Websites and associated documentation AO PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH WEB SITE.HTM (draft for validating military locations through prospective veterans contractor) ' participatory research project) (available from the Systems Requirements Specifications - Agent Orange-Vietnam Website. Last revised June 30, 2003. 9 pages. (available as Appendix D of the Contractor9s Final Report...~. A-4

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^~rfz/~ -~~ a. Fate/ R Survey instruments Amcdc~n Legion - Columbia Univcrshy Vietnam Veterans Study (wave 2" survey) (available Tom 1be contrac10r) La Legidn ^medcana - La univer~dad do Columbia Estudio sobre log Vcter~os de Vietnam Wave 2" survey, Span ish) (available Fom the contrac10r) @ Women in the Vietnam Era (available Mom the contractor) A-5

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