Health Status of Vietnam Veterans. Volume 5. Reproductive Outcomes and Child Health

摘要

The report describes the methods and results of the reproductive and child health component of the Vietnam Experience Study. The health of a sample of male U.S. Army Vietnam veterans was compared with that of a similar group of Vietnam-era veterans who served elsewhere. Two sources of data were used to examine reproductive outcomes and child health: reports by veterans during the telephone interview and hospital birth records of selected veterans' children. Vietnam veterans reported more adverse reproductive and child health outcomes in the telephone interview than did non-Vietnam veterans. However, results of a substudy of birth defects documented on hospital birth records showed that Vietnam veterans were not at increased risk of fathering children with birth defects evident at birth.