METHODS. As part of a comprehensive study of previously deployed military personnel with exertional dyspnea (n=145), all patients underwent pulmonary function testing, screening for burn pit exposure via the VA Burn Pit Registry Questionnaire, and if warranted by sleep questionnaires, in-lab ...
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There has been concern over the possibility that, as a result of exposure to smoke produced by burn pit operations in USCENTCOM, deployed Service members are at increased risk for acute and long term health effects 1-4. The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) and the Naval Healt...
The legislation would also presume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to burn pit exposure, allowing the veterans to obtain disability payments to compensate for their injury without having to prove the illness was a result of their service. Reporting from the Department of V...
From 2007 to 2018, the VA processed 11,581 disability compensation claims that had "at least one condition related to burn pit exposure," a department spokesman toldThe New York Timeslast year. But the department only accepted 2,318 of these claims. The department said the rest did not ...
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Currently, the Department of Veterans Affairs decides these exposure claims on a case-by-case basis, with the exception of those filed for asthma, rhinitis or sinusitis. The burden of proving one's illness is related to a burn pit exposure falls on the veteran, leading to delays in health...
Sweeping burn pit benefits bill set for House vote next week The measure could provide new veterans benefits to as many as one in every five living veterans. ByLeo Shane III On Wednesday, House Democrats will hold a rally on Capitol Hill to push for sweeping toxic exposure legislat...
Subjective burn pit exposure does not appear to influence OSA development in previously deployed military personnel. Given the high rate of OSA in this cohort, continued investigation of deployment exposures which may influence sleep-disordered breathing is recommended....
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