Gulf War and Health

Volume 3: Fuels, Combustion Products, and Propellants

von Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute Of Medicine, Committee on Gulf War and Health Literature Review of Selected Environmental Particulates Pollutants and Synthetic Chemical Compounds

516 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.