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Biological monitoring and surveillance results of Gulf War I veterans exposed to depleted uranium (2005)

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Datumapril 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

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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