Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)
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Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)

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  1. 143 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)

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About this book

More than 5, 800 military personnel, mostly Navy personnel and Marines, participated in a series of tests of U.S. warship vulnerability to biological and chemical warfare agents, Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), in the period 1962-1973. Only some of the involved military personnel were aware of these tests at the time. Many of these tests used simulants, substances with the physical properties of a chemical or biological warfare agent, thought at the time to have been harmless. The existence of these tests did not come to light until many decades later.In September 2002, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) agreed to undertake a scientific study, funded by the Veterans' Affairs, of potential long-term health effects of participation in Project SHAD. In general, there was no difference in all-cause mortality between Project SHAD participants and nonparticipant controls, although participants statistically had a significantly higher risk of death due to heart disease, had higher levels of neurodegenerative medical conditions and higher rates of symptoms with no medical basis.Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD focuses on the potential health effects of participation in Project SHAD. It is a useful resource for government defense agencies, scientists and health professionals.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9780309660907
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Reviewers
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contents
  6. Tables and Figures
  7. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  8. Summary
  9. 1 Study Rationale and Overview
  10. 2 Investigating the Potential Health Effects from Participation in Project SHAD
  11. 3 An Overview of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)
  12. 4 Records-Based Data Sources
  13. 5 Participant Cohort
  14. 6 Referent Cohort
  15. 7 Health Survey
  16. 8 Analysis Structure
  17. 9 Mortality Results
  18. 10 Morbidity Results
  19. 11 Discussion
  20. Appendixes
  21. Appendix A Executive Summaries of Reports on Toxicological or Biological Agents
  22. Appendix B Questionnaire
  23. Appendix C Material Concerning Outreach Survey