| Literature DB >> 2029048 |
T R O'Brien1, P Decouflé, C A Boyle.
Abstract
We examined the incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in a cohort of 18,313 United States Army veterans from the Vietnam era. Diagnoses were confirmed through a review of hospital records. Among veterans who had died after discharge or who had participated in a telephone interview (8,170 Vietnam veterans and 7,564 non-Vietnam veterans), seven Vietnam veterans and one non-Vietnam veteran had developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (p = 0.07). As none of the NHL cases had military job titles which suggest that they were occupationally exposed to herbicides while in Vietnam, the reasons for the excess are unclear.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID： 2029048 PMCID： PMC1405145 DOI： 10.2105/ajph.81.6.758
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Public Health ISSN： 0090-0036 Impact factor: 9.308