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Serum Dioxin Levels in Vietnamese Men more than 40 Years after
Herbicide Spraying
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Ho Dung Manh , Teruhiko Kido *, Rie Okamoto ,
Sun XianLiang , Le Thai Anh , Supratman
Supratman , Shoko Maruzeni , Muneko Nishijo ,
Hideaki Nakagawa , Seijiro Honma , Takeshi
Nakano #, Takumi Takasuga , Dang Duc Nhu ,
Nguyen Ngoc Hung , and Le Ke Son

Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of

Medical Science, Kanazawa University, 5-11-80
Kodatsuno, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan

Faculty of Environmental Engineering and

Biotechnology, Lac Hong University, No.10 Huynh Van Nghe, Buu Long, Bien Hoa, Dong Nai, Vietnam

Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute of Medical Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa
University, 5-11-80 Kodatsuno, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan
Department of Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-
8641, Japan
ASKA Pharma Medical Co. Ltd., 5-36-1 Shimosakunobe, Kawasaki 213-8522, Japan
#
Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Shimadzu Techno-Research Inc., Kyoto 604-8435, Japan

10-80 Division, Hanoi Medical University, No.1 Ton That Tung, Dong Da, Hanoi, Vietnam

Environment Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 67 Nguyen Du Street,

Hanoi, Vietnam
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DOI: 10.1021/es404853h
Publication Date (Web): February 19, 2014
Copyright 2014 American Chemical Society
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Recent studies have found elevated dioxin levels inside some U.S. military former air bases
in Vietnam, known as hotspots. Many studies of Agent Orange have been done in U.S.
veterans; however, there is little known about Vietnamese men. In 2010, we collected blood
samples from 97 men in a hotspot and 85 men in an unsprayed area in Northern Vietnam.
Serum concentrations of not only TCDD but also other dioxins (PCDDs), furans (PCDFs), and
nonortho polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were significantly higher in the hotspot than in
the unsprayed area. In the hotspot, three subareas were demarcated, based on their
proximity to the air base. The total toxic equivalents (TEQ) of PCDDs/PCDFs+PCBs was 41.7
pg/g lipid in the area closest to the air base, while it was around 29 pg/g lipid in the other
two subareas. In the unsprayed area, the dioxin levels were no different between men who
went to the South during the Vietnam War and those who remained in the North, with TEQs
PCDDs/PCDFs+PCBs of around 13.6 pg/g lipid. Our findings suggested that people living close
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to the former U.S. air bases might have been exposed to both Agent Orange and other
sources of dioxin-like compounds.
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