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Gulf war syndrome

BMJ, 1999
Papers p 290 By the end of the Gulf War in February 1991 US, British, and Canadian forces had deployed about 697 000, 53 000, and 4500military personnel, respectively, to south west Asia. The conflict required rapid mobilisation of coalition combat troops, and massive numbers of casualties were expected.1 An extensive medical infrastructure and ...
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Gulf War Illness-associated increases in blood levels of interleukin 6 and C-reactive protein: biomarker evidence of inflammation

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Gulf War Illness is a chronic multisymptom disorder severely impacting the health and well-being of many Veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War. Symptoms that define the disease include pain, fatigue, mood and memory impairments, gastrointestinal ...
Tammy A. Butterick, Janeen H. Trembley, Laura L. Hocum Stone, Clemma J. Muller, Rebecca R. Rudquist, Ronald R. Bach   +5 more
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The long-term hospitalization experience following military service in the 1991 Gulf War among veterans remaining on active duty, 1994–2004

BMC Public Health, 2008
Background Despite more than a decade of extensive, international efforts to characterize and understand the increased symptom and illness-reporting among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, concern over possible long-term health effects related to this ...
Smith Besa, Bellis Kimberly S, Nagaraj Barbara E, DeBakey Samar F, Hooper Tomoko I, Smith Tyler C, Gackstetter Gary D   +6 more
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Connectivity differences between Gulf War Illness (GWI) phenotypes during a test of attention [PDF]

, 2019
One quarter of veterans returning from the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War have developed Gulf War Illness (GWI) with chronic pain, fatigue, cognitive and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Exertion leads to characteristic, delayed onset exacerbations that are not
Baraniuk, James N., Clarke, Tomas, Jamieson, Jessie, Malone, Patrick, Rayhan, Rakib U., VanMeter, John W., Washington, Stuart   +6 more
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The role of the brainstem in sleep disturbances and chronic pain of Gulf War and Iraq/Afghanistan veterans

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
IntroductionGulf War Illness is a type of chronic multisymptom illness, that affects about 30% of veterans deployed to the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War. Veterans deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan after 2000 are reported to have a similar prevalence of chronic ...
Yu Zhang, Matthew Moore, Matthew Moore, Jennifer S. Jennings, J. David Clark, J. David Clark, Peter J. Bayley, Peter J. Bayley, J. Wesson Ashford, J. Wesson Ashford, Ansgar J. Furst, Ansgar J. Furst, Ansgar J. Furst   +12 more
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Exercise challenge in Gulf War Illness reveals two subgroups with altered brain structure and function.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Nearly 30% of the approximately 700,000 military personnel who served in Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991) have developed Gulf War Illness, a condition that presents with symptoms such as cognitive impairment, autonomic dysfunction, debilitating fatigue
Rakib U Rayhan, Benson W Stevens, Megna P Raksit, Joshua A Ripple, Christian R Timbol, Oluwatoyin Adewuyi, John W VanMeter, James N Baraniuk   +7 more
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Labor Force Experiences of Recent Veterans [PDF]

, 2017
[Excerpt] More than 3.8 million members of the U.S. military have left active-duty service since September 2001, a period that some federal agencies call the Gulf War II era (as opposed to the Gulf War I era, which spanned the period from August 1990 to ...
Congressional Budget Office
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Increased brain white matter axial diffusivity associated with fatigue, pain and hyperalgesia in Gulf War illness.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundGulf War exposures in 1990 and 1991 have caused 25% to 30% of deployed personnel to develop a syndrome of chronic fatigue, pain, hyperalgesia, cognitive and affective dysfunction.MethodsGulf War veterans (n = 31) and sedentary veteran and ...
Rakib U Rayhan, Benson W Stevens, Christian R Timbol, Oluwatoyin Adewuyi, Brian Walitt, John W VanMeter, James N Baraniuk   +6 more
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Restoring tripartite glutamatergic synapses: A potential therapy for mood and cognitive deficits in Gulf War illness

Neurobiology of Stress, 2020
Gulf War illness is associated with a combination of exposure to war-related chemical agents and traumatic stress. Currently, there are no effective treatments, and the pathophysiology remains elusive.
Xueqin Wang, Zan Xu, Fangli Zhao, Kuanhung J. Lin, Joshua B. Foster, Tianqi Xiao, Nydia Kung, Candice C. Askwith, John P. Bruno, Valentina Valentini, Kevin J. Hodgetts, Chien-liang Glenn Lin   +11 more
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Detection of changes in the characteristics of oceanographic time-series using changepoint analysis. [PDF]

, 2010
Changepoint analysis is used to detect changes in variability within GOMOS hindcast time-series for significant wave heights of storm peak events across the Gulf of Mexico for the period 1900–2005.
Eckley, Idris A., Ewans, Kevin, Jonathan, Philip, Killick, Rebecca   +3 more
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