Buffalo, July 01, (PRINTWORDS NEWS) A new study states that veterans in the times when the Vietnam War took place are victims of the Graves’ Disease. To be more specific, the researchers at the University at Buffalo have said that those veterans who came in contact with the Agent Orange during the war have been more highly affected by the disease. Ajay Varanasi, one of the endocrinologists in the team of researchers who conducted the study in the month of April this year has confirmed the news that Graves’ Disease, which is a form of thyroid disorder, has made victims of men who had exposed themselves to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War. In fact it is almost three times more prevalent in these men as opposed to the men who did not expose themselves.
Agent Orange was used as a defoliant during the ongoing Vietnam War to kill the crops in the fields of Vietnam in an attempt to reduce jungle foliage so that these fields could subsequently be used to build tents for sheltering the enemy combatants. The study has pointed to dioxin, which was present in Agent Orange, as the chemical responsible for reacting with the thyroid levels in veterans, and later taking the form of Graves’ Disease.
The study made by the team of researchers of the University of Buffalo has generated a lot of attention ever since it was released two months back. Ajay Varanasi, who is the first author of the study has also secured the first prize in oral presentation from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
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