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PAPERBACK list:$26.00 Web:$23.40 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Free Resources Sign in to download PDF book and chapters PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004 Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002 Other Related Titles Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Interim Findings and Recommendations (2003) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) Institute of Medicine (IOM) Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Page 17   E-mail  Facebook  Digg  Stumble  Twitter More Page 17 Front Matter (R1-R12) Introduction and Background (1-4) Foundation for Findings (5-12) Observations Regarding Future Research (13-13) Conclusions and Recommendations (14-14) References (15-16) Appendix A: Power Calculations (17-18) Appendix B: Public Meetings Held by the Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam (19-19) Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies (20-24)

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Appendix A Power Calculations The Columbia University researchers have performed power calcula- tions to estimate the number of subjects that would be needed to conduct an informative study of health outcomes in US veterans of Vietnam. Such calculations comprise many variables, including the incidence rate of the disease being studied, the age of the subjects, the proportion of exposed subjects in the cohort, the statistical confidence levels considered accept- able, and the magnitude of the difference in incidence rates that could be detected. Illustrative calculations were made for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL).1 The sample sizes were estimated on the basis of a 1-tailed chi- square test with alpha = 0.05 and beta = 0.80, an unequal sample size for the exposed and comparison groups (1:4 ratio), and a 587.75/100,000 cu- mulative NHL incidence in the comparison group. They are given below in terms of the relative risk (RR, also known as the risk ratio) that could be detected. 1 The committees responsible for the Veterans and Agent Orange series of reports have found sufficient evidence of an association between exposure to the herbicides used in Vietnam and NHL. 17

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18 EXPOSURE OF VETERANS TO AGENT ORANGE AND OTHER HERBICIDES RR Number Number Sample exposed comparison size needed 1.25 23,310 93,240 116,550 1.50 6,356 25,422 31,778 1.75 3,057 12,227 15,283 2.00 1,849 7,395 9,243 2.50 936 3,742 4,677 3.00 590 2,359 2,948 4.00 319 1,273 1,591 5.00 211 842 1,052 All else equal, diseases that are more common than NHL among individuals in the same age bracket as US veterans of Vietnam would require smaller sample sizes to detect the same RR; less common diseases would require larger sample sizes. Using a larger percentage of exposed individuals would also decrease the sample size needed to detect the same RR.

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