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Al Eskan Disease: Persian Gulf Syndrome [PDF]

Military Medicine, 1997
This article examines the potential relationship between Al Eskan disease and the Persian Gulf syndrome. Al Eskan disease, reported in Military Medicine in 1992, is a novel and previously unreported condition triggered by the exceptionally fine sand dust of the Central and Eastern Saudi Arabian peninsula.
András L Korényi-Both
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The association of metabolic syndrome and Chlamydia pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori, cytomegalovirus, and herpes simplex virus type 1: The Persian Gulf Healthy Heart Study

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2006
Background The metabolic syndrome together with insulin resistance and their consequences are basic factors in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Chronic infections with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and Chlamydia pneumoniae ...
Pazoki Raha, Jafari Seyed, Vahdat Katayon, Nabipour Iraj, Sanjdideh Zahra   +4 more
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The association of metabolic syndrome and ischemic heart disease using resting electrocardiogram in the Northern Persian Gulf adults

Iranian South Medical Journal, 2005
Metabolic syndrome comprises insulin resistance, abdominal fat distribution, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. The metabolic syndrome is expected to be diagnosed in millions of subjects in the near future worldwide.
Ebrahim Shafiee, Iraj Nabipour, Seyed Mojtaba Jafary, Alireza Soltanian, Seyed Reza Emami, Abbas Nosrati, Abbas Liravi, Darush Iranpour, Samaneh Abbasian   +8 more
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Effect of Dokha/Midwakh Tobacco Smoking as a Risk Factor of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Along the Persian Gulf Nations [PDF]

International Journal of Preventive Medicine
Mohammad-Rafi Bazrafshan, Omid Barghi, Esmaeil Kavi, Negar Shahkarami   +3 more
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The metabolic syndrome is not associated with homocysteinemia: The Persian Gulf Healthy Heart Study [PDF]

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation, 2009
It is uncertain whether homocysteine and the metabolic syndrome or its components are related in the general population, as studies investigating the association between homocysteine levels and insulin resistance have shown conflicting results.In an ancillary study to the Persian Gulf Healthy Heart Study, a cohort study of Iranian men and women aged ...
Nabipour, A, Ebrahimi, A, Jafari, S.M., Vahdat, k, Assadi, M, Movahed, A, Moradhaseli, F, Obeidi, N, Sanjdideh, Z   +8 more
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New records of coral diseases in the Persian Gulf [PDF]

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019
We report first observations of three coral diseases including black band disease on Acropora, a syndrome resembling yellow band disease and red band disease on Porites colonies from depth 5–6 m at Abu-Musa Island  after widespread coral bleaching in the
Parviz Tavakoli-Kolour, Sanaz Hazraty-Kari   +1 more
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Reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes among French gulf war veterans

BMC Public Health, 2008
Background Since 1993, many studies on the health of Persian Gulf War veterans (PGWVs) have been undertaken. Some authors have concluded that an association exists between Gulf War service and reported infertility or miscarriage, but that effects on PGWV'
Bégassat Marion, De Vigan Catherine, Jutand Mathe-Aline, Verret Catherine, Bensefa-Colas Lynda, Brochard Patrick, Salamon Roger   +6 more
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Migraine in Gulf War Illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Prevalence, potential mechanisms, and evaluation

Frontiers in Physiology, 2013
Objective: To assess the prevalence of headache subtypes in Gulf War Illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome compared to controls. Background: Migraines are reported in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
Rakib eRayhan, Murugan K Ravindran, James N Baraniuk   +2 more
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Decadelong low basal ganglia NAA/tCr from elevated tCr supports ATP depletion from mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation in Gulf War illness [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Reduced N-acetylaspartate (NAA)/total creatine (tCr) ratio found with long echo-time proton magnetic resonance imaging (1H-MRS) of deep brain structures in a Seabees Battalion in 1997–1998 was soon replicated by two studies but not in a later one using ...
Sergey Cheshkov, Lisa C. Krishnamurthy, Audrey Chang, Hyeon-Man Baek, Sandeep Ganji, Evelyn Babcock, Jeffrey S. Spence, Richard W. Briggs, Robert W. Haley   +8 more
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Theoretical Accounts of Gulf War Syndrome: From Environmental Toxins to Psychoneuroimmunology and Neurodegeneration [PDF]

Behavioural Neurology, 2002
Non-specific illness includes a wide variety of symptoms: behavioural (e.g., reduced food and water intake), cognitive (e.g., memory and concentration problems) and physiological (e.g., fever).
Eamonn Ferguson, Helen J. Cassaday
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