Journal article
Gross Hematuria and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Associated With Military Burn Pits Exposures in US Veterans Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, v 65(9), p740
Sep 2023
PMID: 37367635
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Abstract
US Veterans with burn pits exposures, post-deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, self-report hematuria and lower urinary tract symptoms, which may be features of bladder cancer. ObjectiveThe aim of the study is to describe rates of hematuria and other lower urinary tract symptoms, including self-reported cancer rates, among veterans postburn pits emissions exposure during deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.MethodsUS post-9/11 veterans with burn pits emissions exposure confirmed via DD214 forms in the Burn Pits360.org Registry were sent a modified survey. Data were deidentified and anonymously coded.ResultsTwenty-nine percent of the 155 respondents exposed to burn pits self-reported seeing blood in their urine. The average index score of our modified American Urological Association Symptom Index Survey was 12.25 (SD, 7.48). High rates of urinary frequency (84%) and urgency (76%) were self-reported. Bladder, kidney, or lung cancers were self-reported in 3.87%.ConclusionsUS veterans exposed to burn pits are self-reporting hematuria and other lower urinary tract symptoms.
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- Title
- Gross Hematuria and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Associated With Military Burn Pits Exposures in US Veterans Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan
- Publication Details
- JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, v 65(9), p740
- Publisher
- LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS; PHILADELPHIA
- Grant note
- The work was supported by funding from Burnpits360 and the Department of Veterans Affairs (grant I01 BX004146 to T.A.B.) and the Department of Veterans Affairs BLRD Field Meeting Award (T.A.B., M.A.K., T.M.S., J.M.T., J.H.T., and A.G.). M.A.K. reports I conduct funded research with Cellworks and Galera Therapeutics. I am also a speaker with Plexus Communications and MedLearning (all CME). A.M.S. has funding from the Department of Defense for a different project as site principal investigator and coinvestigator, DOD W81XWH-21-PRMRP-IIRA Burn Pit Monitoring.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001060016600010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85171899676
- Other Identifier
- 991021861180304721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health