In-Theater Hospitalizations of US and Allied Personnel during the 1991 Gulf War
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In-theater hospitalizations of US and allied personnel during the 1991 Gulf War.
The postwar morbidity of Gulf War veterans has been closely examined. However, data have not been available to evaluate morbidity suffered during the 1991 Gulf War. In this report, the authors examine archived records of hospitalizations in US military facilities in the Kuwaiti theater of operations or those medically evacuated to facilities in Europe. Using multivariable logistic regression mo...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh152