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COMMITTEE ON GULF WAR AND HEALTH: LITERATURE REVIEW OF SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICIPATES, POLLUTANTS, AND SYNTHETIC CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS

LYNN R.GOLDMAN (Chair), Professor,

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

MELVYN BRANCH, Joseph Negler Professor of Mechanical Engineering,

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

MICHAEL BRAUER, Professor,

School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

DEBORAH A.CORY-SLECHTA, Director,

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ (Resigned January 22, 2004)

MARK EISNER, Assistant Professor,

Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA

ERIC GARSHICK, Assistant Professor of Medicine,

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

RUSS B.HAUSER, Associate Professor of Occupational Health,

Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

JOEL KAUFMAN, Associate Professor of Medicine,

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Departments of Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

RICHARD MAYEUX, Professor and Director,

Sergievsky Center,

Co-Director,

Taub Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY

CHARLES POOLE, Associate Professor,

Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC

BEATE RITZ, Associate Professor,

Department of Epidemiology and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

JOSEPH RODRICKS, Principal,

ENVIRON Health Sciences Institute, ENVIRON International Corporation, Arlington, VA

RICHARD SCHLESINGER, Chair and Professor,

Department of Biological Sciences, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY

JAMES TAYLOR, Head,

Section of Industrial Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

MARK UTELL, Professor,

Departments of Medicine and Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY

WILLIAM VALENTINE, Associate Professor,

Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

JUDITH ZELIKOFF, Associate Professor,

Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, NY

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CAROLYN FULCO, Senior Program Officer

ABIGAIL MITCHELL, Senior Program Officer

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MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Senior Program Associate

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HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant

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PETER JAMES, Research Assitant

DAMIKA WEBB, Senior Program Assistant

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MIRIAM DAVIS, Independent Medical Writer,

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MARK GOLDBERG,

McGill University, Montreal, QC

KATHERINE HOGGATT,

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

JOAN DENCKLA,

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

KIT SHAN LEE,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

EDITOR

NORMAN GROSSBLATT, NRC Senior Editor

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REVIEWERS

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

JOHN R.BALMES, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA

ANNECLAIRE J.DE ROOS, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

ARTHUR L.FRANK, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

PATRICK KINNEY, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY

HOWARD KIPEN, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Department of Environmental and Community Medicine, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

JANE Q.KOENIG, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

FRANCINE LADEN, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

THOMAS MACK, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

JONATHAN PATZ, Global Environmental Health Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

SAMUEL POTOLICCHIO, Department of Neurology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC

PEGGY REYNOLDS, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health Services, Oakland, CA

JONATHAN M.SAMET, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by DAVID J.TOLLERUD, School of Public Health University of Louisville, KY, and M.DONALD WHORTON, WorkCare, Inc., Alameda, CA, who were appointed by the Report Review Committee. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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PREFACE

As this report goes to press and our country is engaged in a war in Iraq, it is important to recall the 1990–1991 Gulf War. Engaging around 700,000 US military personnel, the Gulf War was of brief duration and entailed very few casualties among US troops. Yet, as they say, “war is hell”, and our troops were exposed to numerous traumatic events and a multitude of hazardous substances. Not long after the war ended, many of its veterans reported a variety of chronic symptoms. Numerous studies were conducted, most of which corroborated reports of higher rates of signs and symptoms among these veterans. Some of the signs and symptoms have clearly been associated with identifiable medical diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression; others are outside current medical diagnostic classifications.

Veterans have been deeply concerned about whether exposures in the gulf were associated with chronic health problems after the end of the war. In response to their concerns, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Congress secured the assistance of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in evaluating the scientific literature regarding exposures that may have occurred in the Gulf War. In a sense, this approach followed a model developed for the Vietnam War, after which there was concern about the possible health effects of exposure to dioxins in Agent Orange. In that case, the work of IOM has played a key role in informing VA decisions regarding compensation for dioxin-related chronic health effects. Following that model, Congress enacted legislation that specifically directed IOM to evaluate the effects of 33 agents; this report covers a small number of the agents: hydrazines, red fuming nitric acid, hydrogen sulfide, oil-fire byproducts, and diesel-heater fumes. In addition, VA requested that we assess potential exposures to fuels that were used in the Gulf War (gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and kerosene) and their combustion products.

Although we had a relatively small number of substances to review, the scientific literature on air pollutants from fuel combustion, as well as from exposure to fuels, is extensive. IOM appointed a committee with knowledge in the toxicology and epidemiology of fuels and combustion products; it included experts in combustion chemistry, rocket propellants, immunology, pulmonology, cancer, neurosciences, dermatology, and reproductive and developmental toxicology. The committee did not limit itself to studies of Gulf War veterans but rather reviewed all relevant literature with regard to chronic medical effects of exposure. Although the committee focused on epidemiologic studies, which are likely to identify associations between specific exposures and diagnoses in people, it also placed weight on toxicologic studies and on clinical case series that were informative about specific exposure-disease relationships. Along the lines of earlier Gulf War reports, the committee has framed its conclusions in categories of strength of association. Despite the extensive challenge of reviewing the literature and the

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diversity of expertise and views among committee members, the committee was able to reach consensus on all conclusions. For that, I am most grateful.

The committee identified several associations between exposures to rocket propellants and combustion products and disease. However, there is some concern among our members about the direction that the process has taken. Many of the substances to which there was potential exposure in the gulf are unique to war service (for example, nerve agents, mustard agents, and rocket propellants), but others are not and may be at least as likely to occur in noncombat military service or in civilian life as in war (for example, fuels, air pollutants, and the solvents and pesticides reviewed in Gulf War and Health, Volume 2: Insecticides and Solvents). Therefore, as the process has evolved from an examination of exposures unique to wartime to exposures that are ubiquitous and may be even greater in civilian life, what are VA and Congress to do with the results of this study? A second troubling issue is the lack of exposure information for individual veterans; given that many risks are clearly exposure-related, it is difficult to use the results of our review to assess whether veterans’ illnesses are due to such exposures. Third, it is important to interpret the results of our review in a larger context of public health and prevention; for example, the committee found some evidence of an association between hydrazine exposure and lung cancer, but there obviously are much larger and better-established associations between lung cancer and other exposures, such as smoking and exposure to radon and asbestos. Given those circumstances, this report cannot answer the question of whether service in the gulf was associated with such exposures and whether specific health outcomes are due to the exposures. Despite those limitations, the committee hopes that its report will be helpful to all who may have been exposed to the substances in question and to those who are considering further research in the subject.

I am deeply appreciative of the expert work of our committee members, and it has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with the IOM staff. Without them, this report would not have been possible.

Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH, Chair

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 Malignant Melanoma of the Skin

 

94

   

 Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers

 

98

   

 Female Breast Cancer

 

101

   

 Male Breast Cancer

 

102

   

 Female Genital Cancers (Cervical, Endometrial, Uterine, and Ovarian)

 

104

   

 Male Genital Cancers (Prostatic and Testicular)

 

105

   

 Nervous System Cancers

 

107

   

 Ocular Melanoma

 

110

   

 Bladder Cancer

 

111

   

 Kidney Cancer

 

119

   

 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

 

127

   

 Hodgkin’s Disease

 

130

   

 Multiple Myeloma

 

132

   

 Leukemias

 

137

   

 Myelodysplastic Syndromes

 

140

   

 Summary of Conclusions

 

142

   

 Tables

 

144

   

 References

 

223

5

 

RESPIRATORY OUTCOMES

 

240

   

 Fuels and Respiratory Outcomes

 

241

   

 Combustion Products and Respiratory Outcomes

 

243

   

 References

 

270

6

 

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

 

277

   

 Fuels and Cardiovascular Disease

 

278

   

 Combustion Products and Cardiovascular Disease

 

278

   

 References

 

284

7

 

REPRODUCTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES

 

288

   

 Studies of Birth Defects in Gulf War Veterans

 

288

   

 Fuels and Reproductive and Developmental Outcomes

 

290

   

 Combustion Products and Reproductive and Developmental Outcomes

 

297

   

 References

 

313

8

 

OTHER HEALTH OUTCOMES

 

317

   

 Neurologic Outcomes

 

317

   

 Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

 

325

   

 Dermatologic Outcomes

 

331

   

 Sarcoidosis

 

337

   

 References

 

341

9

 

HYDRAZINES AND NITRIC ACID

 

347

   

 Toxicology

 

348

   

 Epidemiologic Studies

 

360

   

 References

 

390

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Boxes, Tables, and Figures

BOX 1.1

 

Agents Specified In PL 105–368 and PL 105–277

 

13

BOX 4.1

 

Summary of Findings Regarding the Association Between Specific Cancers and Exposure to Fuels and Combustion Products

 

142

FIGURE 4.1

 

Lung cancer and occupations with exposure to combustion products

 

87

FIGURE 4.2

 

Lung cancer and indoor air pollution from combustion of fuels

 

88

FIGURE 4.3

 

Lung cancer and ambient air pollution from combustion of fuels

 

89

TABLE ES.1

 

Summary of Findings Regarding the Association Between Exposure to Fuels, Combustion Products, Hydrazines, and Nitric Acid and Specific Health Outcomes

 

7

TABLE 3.1

 

Chemical Identity and Some Physical and Chemical Properties of Selected Fuels

 

30

TABLE 3.2

 

Recommended Exposure Limits for Fuels

 

32

TABLE 4.1

 

Cancers of the Oral Cavity and Oropharynx and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

144

TABLE 4.2

 

Cancers of the Oral Cavity and Oropharynx and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

145

TABLE 4.3

 

Cancers of the Nasal Cavity and Nasopharynx and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

147

TABLE 4.4

 

Cancers of the Nasal Cavity and Nasopharynx and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

147

TABLE 4.5

 

Esophageal Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

148

TABLE 4.6

 

Esophageal Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

149

TABLE 4.7

 

Stomach Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

150

TABLE 4.8

 

Stomach Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

151

TABLE 4.9

 

Colon Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

152

TABLE 4.10

 

Colon Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

153

TABLE 4.11

 

Rectal Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

154

TABLE 4.12

 

Rectal Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

155

TABLE 4.13

 

Hepatic Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

156

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TABLE 4.14

 

Hepatic Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

156

TABLE 4.15

 

Pancreatic Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

157

TABLE 4.16

 

Pancreatic Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

157

TABLE 4.17

 

Laryngeal Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

158

TABLE 4.18

 

Laryngeal Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

159

TABLE 4.19

 

Lung Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

163

TABLE 4.20

 

Lung Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

164

TABLE 4.21

 

Melanoma Skin Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

184

TABLE 4.22

 

Melanoma Skin Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

185

TABLE 4.23

 

Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

187

TABLE 4.24

 

Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

187

TABLE 4.25

 

Female Breast Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

188

TABLE 4.26

 

Female Breast Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

189

TABLE 4.27

 

Male Breast Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

190

TABLE 4.28

 

Male Breast Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

190

TABLE 4.29

 

Female Genital Cancers and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

191

TABLE 4.30

 

Female Genital Cancers and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

192

TABLE 4.31

 

Prostatic Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

193

TABLE 4.32

 

Prostatic Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

194

TABLE 4.33

 

Brain/CNS Cancers and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

195

TABLE 4.34

 

Brain/CNS Cancers and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

197

TABLE 4.35

 

Ocular Melanoma and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

197

TABLE 4.36

 

Bladder Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

198

TABLE 4.37

 

Bladder Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

200

TABLE 4.38

 

Kidney Cancer and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

207

TABLE 4.39

 

Kidney Cancer and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

210

TABLE 4.40

 

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

212

TABLE 4.41

 

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

214

TABLE 4.42

 

Hodgkin’s Disease and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

215

TABLE 4.43

 

Hodgkin’s Disease and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

216

TABLE 4.44

 

Multiple Myeloma and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

216

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TABLE 4.45

 

Multiple Myeloma and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

218

TABLE 4.46

 

Leukemias and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

220

TABLE 4.47

 

Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Exposure to Fuels—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

221

TABLE 4.48

 

Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Exposure to Combustion Products—Selected Epidemiologic Studies

 

222

TABLE 5.1

 

Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Fuel Exposure and Respiratory Outcomes

 

243

TABLE 5.2

 

Gulf War Veteran Health Studies of Oil-Well Fire Smoke

 

248

TABLE 5.3

 

Exposure in Smith et al. 2002

 

251

TABLE 5.4

 

Key Studies of Asthma

 

265

TABLE 5.5

 

Key Studies of Chronic Bronchitis

 

268

TABLE 7.1

 

Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Reproductive Outcomes and Exposure to Fuel

 

290

TABLE 7.2

 

Preterm Birth and Combustion-Product Exposure

 

299

TABLE 7.3

 

Low Birthweight or Intrauterine Growth Retardation and Combustion-Product Exposure

 

303

TABLE 8.1

 

Prevalence of MCS Symptoms in Gulf War and US Population-Based Samples

 

326

TABLE 8.2

 

Common Triggers and Original Causes Reported by People with Chemical Sensitivity (n=235) Population-Based Sample

 

331

TABLE 8.3

 

Dermatitis and Fuel Exposure

 

333

TABLE 8.4

 

Case-Control Studies of Sarcoidosis and Combustion Product Exposure

 

338

TABLE 9.1

 

Chemical Identity and Selected Physical and Chemical Properties of Hydrazines and Nitric Acid

 

349

TABLE 9.2

 

Recommended Exposure Limits for Hydrazines and Nitric Acid

 

352

TABLE 9.3

 

Epidemiologic Studies Related to Exposure to Hydrazines

 

364

TABLE 9.4

 

Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Health Outcomes and Exposure to Hydrazines

 

372

TABLE 9.5

 

Epidemiologic Studies Related to Exposure to Nitric Acid

 

375

TABLE 9.6

 

Selected Epidemiologic Studies—Health Outcomes and Exposure to Nitric Acid

 

386

TABLE D.1

 

Description of Cohort Studies Related to Exposure to Fuels and Combustion Products

 

414

TABLE D.2

 

Description of Case-Control Studies Related to Exposure to Fuels and Combustion Products

 

425

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The third in a series of congressionally mandated reports on Gulf War veterans’ health, this volume evaluates the long-term, human health effects associated with exposure to selected environmental agents, pollutants, and synthetic chemical compounds believed to have been present during the Gulf War. The committee specifically evaluated the literature on hydrogen sulfide, combustion products, hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid. Both the epidemiologic and toxicologic literature were reviewed.

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