Methods: Factor analysis was used to determine whether the co-occurrence of 62 symptoms in 1322 male Gulf War veterans can be explained by a number of underlying dimensions, called factors. The methodology was also applied to 1459 male comparison group subjects and the factor solutions of the ...
Conclusions: Gulf war veterans remain a group with many symptoms of ill health. The excess of illness at follow up is explained by both higher incidence and greater persistence of symptoms. 展开 被引量: 7 年份: 2003 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
In the middle of the Great War, General Horace Smith-Dorrien, an Old Harrovian, published Harrow's Epic of War , a short book which explained "how the scho... Stice, Elizabeth - Empire and Harrow’s “Epic of War:” British Officers and Imperial Culture in the First World War 被引量...
These problems included a complex of symptoms not explained by established medical or psychiatric diagnoses. This condition, now known as Gulf War illness (GWI), continues to affect a substantial number of veterans who served in the 1990–1991 Gulf War, decades after their deployment [7,8,9,...
and the increase was not explained by a change in the interval from onset to diagnosis or by a change in the US population death rate of ALS in those aged <45 years.The observed incidence of ALS in young Gulf War veterans exceeded the expected, suggesting a war-related environmental trigger...
These differences were not explained by a range of potential confounders, or differences in PON1 coding region polymorphisms. PON1 activity is reduced in PGW veterans compared with military control groups. The effect is independent of ill health in PGW veterans. 展开 关键词:...
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...
Even with the war’s end, “they still feel guilty, because they have learned that they appreciate their (children) now more than ever,” Sanchez explained. “Sometimes we let years go by without saying, ‘I love you,’” Sanchez told parents at one group session. “Let’s promise ourse...
Abstract One of the longest running toponymic battles in the world revolves around the nomenclature of “The Gulf.” I even received an e-mail admonishing me to only use the term “Persian Gulf” when referring to the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. I explained to the...
Tony Gould Watches Science Confront Suffering; the Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War by Jef... the Distressed Veterans of Recent Wars Still Baffle Their Doctors. Tony Gould Watches Science Confront Suffering; the Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War by Jeff ...