Serum dioxin and diabetes mellitus in veterans of operation ranch hand

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 252-258

  Henriksen, Gary L ^a   Ketchum, Norma S ^a   Michalek, Joel E ^a   Swaby, James A ^a  

^a Air Force Materiel Command   (United States)

Author keywords

cohort study; diabetes mellitus; dioxin; glucose metabolism; insulin; occupational exposures

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DIOXIN; GLUCOSE; HERBICIDE; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AIR FORCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SYNTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; VIET NAM;

EID: 0030983681     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199705000-00005     Document Type: Article

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