Objective: Do the 3.5 million US veterans, who primarily utilize private healthcare, have similar burn pit exposure and disease compared to the VA Burn Pit registry? Methods: This is an online volunteer survey of Gulf War and Post-9/11 veterans. Results: Burn pit exposure had significantly ...
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...
Burn pit emissions contain particulate matter combined with toxic gasses and heavy metals. Ongoing research has demonstrated that exposures to the airborne hazards from military burn pits have profound and lasting health and wellness consequences. Research on the long-term health consequences of exposure...
One of the research priorities likely to be ranked most highly, particularly by patients, is the prevention and management of burn-related scarring. Cutaneous scarring remains, for many patients, a long-term reminder of their burn injury with psychological, functional and aesthetic consequences for...
Lung pathologies are due mainly to inflammatory responses rather than other direct causes of pathologic symptoms. An example of this phenomenon was demonstrated by Yoshida et al., where Rtp801 (also known as REDD1) knock-out mice exposed to tobacco smoke were protected from emphysema, in ...