Gulf War Illness.Focuses on the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome during the Persian Gulf War. Conditions among Gulf War veterans; Symptoms of Gulf War illness; Investigation on the cause of the disease.EBSCO_AspCq Researcher
Related to Gulf War illness:Desert Storm syndrome Gulf War syndrome orGulf War illness n. A medical condition that has been reported in some veterans of the Gulf War, characterized by a multitude of symptoms including chronic fatigue, headache, joint pain, eczema, dyspepsia, neurologic dysfunction...
Gulf War illness[]Main article: Gulf War syndromeMany returning coalition soldiers reported illnesses following their action in the war, a phenomenon known as Gulf War syndrome or Gulf War illness. Common symptoms reported are chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and gastrointestinal disorder.[207] There ...
The study will utilize both existing datasets and newly collected data to examine the prevalence and patterns of Gulf War Illness symptoms, diagnosed medical conditions, reproductive health, birth outcomes and other health issues among women who served during the Gulf War. The Gulf War Women’s ...
Gulf War illness (GWI) is the term used to describe this disorder. In addition, brain cancer occurs at increased rates in subgroups of GW veterans, as do neuropsychological and brain imaging abnormalities. Chemical exposures have become the focus of etiologic GWI research because nervous system ...
Gulf War SyndromeSynonymsSynonymsGulf war illness (GWI); Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)Short Description or DefinitionShort Description or DefinitionAlmost 700,000 US service personnel served in Operations Deserdoi:10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_555Gudrun Lange...
Is there a Gulf War Syndrome? Searching for syndromes by factor analysis of symptoms. Managing future Gulf War Syndromes: international lessons and new models of care. Health of UK Servicemen who served in the Persian Gulf War Self-reported illness and health status among Gulf War veterans: A ...
Validation of a Research Case Definition of Gulf War Illness in the 1991 US Military Population Background: A case definition of Gulf War illness with 3 primary variants, previously developed by factor analysis of symptoms in a US Navy construction ba... VG Iannacchione,JA Dever,CM Bann,.....
Gulf War Illness (GWI) remains a serious health consequence for at least 11,000 veterans of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. Our understanding of the health consequences that resulted remains inadequate, and this is of great concern with another deployment to the same theater of operation...
Introduction: Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic, multisymptom (e.g., fatigue, muscle/joint pain, memory and concentration difficulties) condition estimated to affect 25--32% of Gulf War (GW) veterans. Longitudinal studies suggest that few veterans with GWI have rec...