Health consequences of the first Persian Gulf War on French troops
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Health consequences of the first Persian Gulf War on French troops.
Since 1993, many studies on the health of Persian Gulf War Veterans (PGWV) have been undertaken. These studies have concluded that there has been an increased mortality due to external causes, no excess of recognized diseases, and no effect on PGWV children. When compared with the non-deployed, PGWV have reported a higher frequency of infertility as well as different symptoms, but a specific Gu...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi318