The disease pattern and relation factor of second generation of the Korean paraquat intoxication patients in vietnam war.
- Author:
Hag Jun KIM
1
;
Jin Suk CHEON
;
Oh Kil KIM
;
Gun Ho LEE
;
Yong Jun AN
;
Jun Ho HA
;
Sang Jun BYEON
;
Sang Ryong LEE
;
Sun Kwan KIM
;
Kyung Seok OH
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans Hospital, Pusan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Paraquat;
Agent orange;
Vietnam war
- MeSH:
Bias (Epidemiology);
Busan;
Gyeongsangnam-do;
Hospitals, Veterans;
Humans;
Interviews as Topic;
Male;
Medical Records;
Middle Aged;
Military Personnel;
Outpatients;
Paraquat*;
Parturition;
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases;
Skin;
Smoke;
Smoking;
Tobacco Products;
Vietnam*
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2000;58(2):221-226
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: This is the studies about "If the soldiers expose in the paraquat, how much have it influenced on themselves who participated in the Vietnam War and their second generation?" and this is also researched about the factors that "How differents do the symptoms according to their health conditions and a class of diseases?". First of all, We divided them into 3 groups as exposure duration and exposure degree of the paraquat and We gave marks against each steps, too. (< point 10: low group, point 11-19: middle group, > point 20: high group). We've focused in "Does the high score really involves with their descendants who suffers from paraquat?" as direct damages men during from June 1965 to February 1971 (72 persons) and their descendants (266 persons) who are in the Pusan veterans hospital and outpatients. METHODS: It is completed by direct interview, telephone interview, army records, army history, and medical records with them. We've tried to minify sample bias as analyzing their information. We could contact only a few people among living in Pusan or Kyongnam province. Generally, someone including persons who couldn't get a damaging proofs from paraquat hardly joined us and the others strongly rejected the interview for this research. RESULTS: Among the 72 participating soldiers in the Vietnam war, average age of patient is 53 years old (the youngest: 46 years old, the oldest: 64 years old), average of exposure score is 16 point (minimum: 1.9 point, maximum: 31.9 point), average of pregnant frequency is 5.2 persons, and average degree of smoking is 14.382 single cigarette (minimum: 4 single cigarette, maximum: 60 single cigarette). The second generation is suffering from abortion, skin disorder, still birth, congenital anomalies, weakness, visual disturbance, peripheral neuropathy in frequency. CONCLUSION: There's no relation between exposure score of paraquat and diseases of the descendants.
