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The Innate Immune System and Inflammatory Priming: Potential Mechanistic Factors in Mood Disorders and Gulf War Illness

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Gulf War Illness is a chronic multisystem disorder affecting approximately a third of the Veterans of the Gulf War, manifesting with physical and mental health symptoms such as cognitive impairment, neurological abnormalities, and dysregulation of mood ...
Kyle J. Trageser, Maria Sebastian-Valverde, Sean X Naughton, Giulio Maria Pasinetti, Giulio Maria Pasinetti   +4 more
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Brain–Immune Interactions as the Basis of Gulf War Illness: Clinical Assessment and Deployment Profile of 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans in the Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) Multisite Case-Control Study

Brain Sciences, 2021
The Boston University-based Gulf War Illness Consortium (GWIC) is a multidisciplinary initiative developed to provide detailed understanding of brain and immune alterations that underlie Gulf War illness (GWI), the persistent multisymptom disorder ...
Lea Steele, Nancy Klimas, Maxine Krengel, Emily Quinn, Rosemary Toomey, Deborah Little, Maria Abreu, Kristina Aenlle, Ronald Killiany, Bang-Bon Koo, Patricia Janulewicz, Timothy Heeren, Allison N. Clark, Joy Ajama, Joanna Cirillo, Gerardo Buentello, Vanesa Lerma, Janet K. Coller, Kimberly Sullivan   +18 more
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The Gulf war syndrome [PDF]

BMJ, 1995
EDITOR,—Since my predecessor last wrote to the BMJ1 the number of patients concerned about their health in relation to service during the Gulf war in 1990-1 who have undergone systematic assessment by the defence medical services has risen to 200. Our assessment programme is being subjected to clinical audit by the Royal College of Physicians. When the
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The study of reproductive outcome and the health of offspring of UK veterans of the Gulf war: methods and description of the study population

BMC Public Health, 2003
Background The aim of this study is to determine whether Gulf war veterans and their partners are at increased risk of adverse reproductive events and whether their children have increased risk of serious health problems.
Prior Susan, Pelerin Margo, Lewis Samantha, Davies Graham, Doyle Pat, Maconochie Noreen, Sampson Patrick   +6 more
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Dichotomous factor analysis of symptoms reported by UK and US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

Population Health Metrics, 2004
Background Factor analysis is one of the most used statistical techniques to analyze the inter-relationships among symptoms reported by Gulf War veterans.
Hull Lisa, Unwin Catherine, Wessely Simon, Ismail Khalida, Nisenbaum Rosane, Reeves William C   +5 more
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Association of Gulf War Illness-Related Symptoms with Military Exposures among 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans Evaluated at the War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC)

Brain Sciences, 2022
Veterans with difficult-to-diagnose conditions who receive care in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system can be referred for evaluation at one of three specialty VA War-Related Illness and Injury Study Centers (WRIISC).
Sarah T. Ahmed, Lea Steele, Peter Richardson, Shree Nadkarni, Sandhya Bandi, Mazhgan Rowneki, Kellie J. Sims, Jacqueline Vahey, Elizabeth J. Gifford, Stephen H. Boyle, Theresa H. Nguyen, Alice Nono Djotsa, Donna L. White, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Helena Chandler, Jose-Miguel Yamal, Drew A. Helmer   +16 more
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Reproductive health of male Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

BMC Public Health, 2007
Background Since the 1991 Gulf War concerns have been raised about the effects of deployment to the Gulf War on veterans' health. Studies of the reproductive health of Gulf War veterans have reported varied findings.
Glass Deborah C, McKenzie Dean P, Forbes Andrew B, Ikin Jillian F, Sim Malcolm R, Kelsall Helen L, Ittak Peter   +6 more
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Bone and the Gulf War [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2002
Oesteoblasts—possible victims of the Gulf War? Compston and her colleagues have a deserved international reputation for their studies of bone turnover and altered bone cell function in skeletal disease. Recently, they have been approached to undertake studies of bone in groups of individuals concerned about the possible harmful effects on their bone ...
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The prevalence of headaches, pain, and other associated symptoms in different Persian Gulf deployment periods and deployment durations

SAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Objectives: This study aims to assess (1) the difference in the prevalence of headaches, pain, and other associated symptoms between Gulf War I (1990–1991) and Post-Gulf War I (1992–2015) veterans who served as active military personnel in the Persian ...
Karen Lei, Valerie Metzger-Smith, Shahrokh Golshan, Jennifer Javors, Albert Leung   +4 more
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Mitochondrial dysfunction in Gulf War illness revealed by 31Phosphorus Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: a case-control study.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundApproximately 1/3 of 1990-1 Gulf War veterans developed chronic multisymptom health problems. Implicated exposures bear mechanisms that adversely affect mitochondria.
Hayley J Koslik, Gavin Hamilton, Beatrice A Golomb   +2 more
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