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Association of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Hyperlipidemia With Gulf War Illness Among Gulf War Veterans [PDF]

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023
Background Approximately 30% of the 700 000 Gulf War veterans report a chronic symptom‐based illness of varying severity referred to as Gulf War illness (GWI).
Sarah T. Ahmed, Ruosha Li, Peter Richardson, Saurendro Ghosh, Lea Steele, Donna L. White, Alice Nono Djotsa, Kellie Sims, Elizabeth Gifford, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Salim S. Virani, Robert Morgan, George Delclos, Drew A. Helmer   +13 more
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Computational modeling-directed combination treatment with etanercept and mifepristone mitigates neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Gulf War Illness is a chronic multi-symptom disorder experienced by over 30% of veterans from the 1990-1991 Gulf War and is increasingly recognized to be driven by underlying persistent neuroinflammation resulting from chemical and physiological ...
Kimberly A Kelly, Christopher M Felton, Brenda K Billig, Ali A Yilmaz, James P O'Callaghan, Travis J A Craddock, Gordon Broderick, Nancy Klimas, Lindsay T Michalovicz   +8 more
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Epigenetic study of the long-term effects of gulf War illness [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics
IntroductionGulf War Illness is a chronic multisymptomatic disorder that affects as many as 25-35% of the military personnel who were sent to the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
B. C. Jones, J. P. O’Callaghan, D. G. Ashbrook, L. Lu, P. Prins, W. Zhao, K. Mozhui   +6 more
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Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) and Gulf War Illness (GWI): HLA-DRB1*13:02 Spares Subcortical Atrophy in Gulf War Veterans

EBioMedicine, 2017
Background: Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a multisystem disorder that has affected a substantial number of veterans who served in the 1990–91 Gulf War. The brain is prominently affected, as manifested by the presence of neurological, cognitive and mood ...
Lisa M. James, Peka Christova, Brian E. Engdahl, Scott M. Lewis, Adam F. Carpenter, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos   +5 more
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Adaptive Immune Responses Associated with the Central Nervous System Pathology of Gulf War Illness

Neuroscience Insights, 2021
Gulf War Illness is a multisymptomatic condition which affects 30% of veterans from the 1991 Gulf War. While there is evidence for a role of peripheral cellular and humoral adaptive immune responses in Gulf War Illness, a potential role of the adaptive ...
Aurore Nkiliza, Utsav Joshi, James E Evans, Ghania Ait-Ghezala, Megan Parks, Fiona Crawford, Michael Mullan, Laila Abdullah   +7 more
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Grappling with Gulf War Illness: Perspectives of Gulf War Providers [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Background: Although the Gulf War occurred almost 30 years ago, the chronic symptoms of Gulf War illness (GWI), which include respiratory, gastrointestinal, and skin problems, as well as fatigue, pain, and mood alterations, currently affect over 200,000 veterans. Meanwhile, healthcare providers lack clear guidelines about how to best treat this illness.
Kaimal, Girija, Dieterich-Hartwell, Rebekka   +1 more
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United States Involvement in Economic and Military Sector in the First Gulf War Between Iraq-Iran (1980-1988)

Historia: Jurnal Pendidikan Sejarah FKIP UM Metro, 2022
The purpose of this study is to describe the background of the First Gulf War in 1980-1988, the involvement of the United States in the economic field in the First Gulf War in 1980-1988, the involvement of the United States in the military field in the ...
Sumiyatun Sumiyatun, Selly Selly, Kuswono Kuswono   +2 more
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Advancing the Role of Neuroimmunity and Genetic Susceptibility in Gulf War Illness

Brain Sciences, 2022
Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic multi-symptom disorder affecting as many as 30% of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War [...]
Kimberly Sullivan, James P. O’Callaghan   +1 more
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Impact of the first Gulf war on multiple sclerosis risk in Kuwait: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Neurology, 2023
Objective It has been reasoned that stressful life events tend to alter immune function thereby increasing the susceptibility to autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS).
Saeed Akhtar, Jasem Y. Al-Hashel, Raed Alroughani   +2 more
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The impact of the tanker war on the Kuwaiti economy 1986-1988 [PDF]

مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية, 2022
The Kuwaiti economy has suffered a lot as a result of the tanker war. The reason is that Kuwait is an oil state, that is, it is highly greedy for oil, due to its location on the Arabian Gulf and its proximity to the theater of military operations during ...
Ahmed Abduljabbar Freih
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