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Can my undifferentiated connective tissue disease be generated by my fathers severe exposure to agent orange? he has type 2 diabetes due to exposure.

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Not likely.: The Institute of Medicine publishes a biennial report on the Agent Orange issue. There is limited but suggestive evidence of an association with diabetes (10% of the population has DM and very very few of them were ever exposed to AO) and no proposed evidence linking UCTD to paternal dioxin exposure. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18395

Dr Munshower agreed

Answered 9/29/2016

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