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Biological monitoring and surveillance results of Gulf War I veterans exposed to depleted uranium
Auteur | McDiarmid, Engelhardt … |
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Datum | april 2005 |
Classificatie | 6.05.2.10/12 (VERARMD URANIUM - MILITAIR - DESERT STORM / IRAK / KOEWEIT) |
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Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2005) DOI 10.1007/s00420-005-0006-2 O R I GI N A L A R T IC L E Melissa A. McDiarmid Æ Susan M. Engelhardt Marc Oliver Æ Patricia Gucer Æ P. David Wilson Robert Kane Æ Michael Kabat Æ Bruce Kaup Larry Anderson Æ Dennis Hoover Æ Lawrence Brown Richard J. Albertini Æ Rama Gudi David Jacobson-Kram Æ Craig D. Thorne Katherine S. Squibb Biological monitoring and surveillance results of Gulf War I veterans exposed to depleted uranium Received: 2 November 2004 / Accepted: 6 April 2005 Ó Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract Objective: To relate medical surveillance out- Methods: Thirty-two veterans of Gulf War I who were comes to uranium biomonitoring results in a group of victims of ‘friendly fire’ involving DU weapons, in depleted uranium (DU)-exposed, Gulf War I veterans. whom exposure assessment can accurately be mea- sured, had urine uranium concentrations determined using ICP-MS technology. Clinical laboratory param- S. M. Engelhardt (&) Æ R. Kane Æ M. Kabat Æ B. Kaup eters were measured and related to urine uranium L. Brown concentrations. Data were examined by stratifying the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, cohort into a low U group, <0.10 lg/g creatinine Baltimore, MD 21201, USA versus a high U group, ‡0.10 lg/g creatinine and c/o Occupational Health Program, assessing differences between groups. Results: Over a 405 W, Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA decade after first exposure, soldiers possessing embedded DU fragments continue to excrete elevated M. A. McDiarmid Æ M. Oliver Æ P. Gucer Æ C. D. Thorne concentrations of uranium in uri