![]() ![]() Agent Orange-exposed veterans had less facial expression, worse motor symptoms and notably different brain imaging, researchers found, suggesting “the possibility of different pathophysiology of PD in patients exposed to Agent Orange from idiopathic PD.”1 A study of Korean veterans exposed to the defoliant during the Vietnam War recently found a number of significant differences between Parkinson’s patients with Agent Orange exposure and those without it. More evidence linking the two has emerged since that report. The Institute of Medicine, now the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, determined in its report Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008 that “suggestive but limited evidence that exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam War is associated with an increased chance of developing Parkinson’s disease.” WASHINGTON – A recent political development, more than 50 years in the coming, has the potential to significantly change who receives benefits for Parkinson’s disease through the VA.Ībout 2.6 million veterans who served during the Vietnam War were potentially exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4-dechlorophenoxyacetic acid), according to the VA. Blue Water veterans lobby in Washington for VA benefits related to Agent Orange exposure. ![]()
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