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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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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 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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Psychological health of Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: an assessment using the SF-12, GHQ-12 and PCL-S [PDF]

, 2004
Background. Elevated rates of psychological morbidity and symptomatology have been widely reported in 1991 Gulf War veterans. The present study used brief self-report instruments to compare the psychological health of Australian Gulf War veterans with ...
Creamer, M., Forbes, A., Glass, D., Ikin, J., Ittak, P., Kelsall, H., McFarlane, A., McKenzie, D., Sim, M.   +8 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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Central Executive Dysfunction and Deferred Prefrontal Processing in Veterans with Gulf War Illness. [PDF]

, 2013
Gulf War Illness is associated with toxic exposure to cholinergic disruptive chemicals. The cholinergic system has been shown to mediate the central executive of working memory (WM).
Bennett, Ilana J, Brigante, Ryan M, Haley, Robert W, Hubbard, Nicholas A, Hutchison, Joanna L, Motes, Michael A, Rypma, Bart, Shokri-Kojori, Ehsan   +7 more
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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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