Push for Gulf syndrome research

Research ethics. Research practice and participant preferences: the growing gulf.

have Gulf war syndrome : questionnaire study

Objectives To determine how many veterans in a random sample of British veterans who served in the Gulf war believe they have “Gulf war syndrome,” to examine factors associated with the presence of this belief, and to compare the health status of those who believe they have Gulf war syndrome with those who do not. Design Questionnaire study asking British Gulf war veterans whether they believe ...

Resolving the Gulf War syndrome question.

One central health question remains unanswered 7 years after the war with Iraq: Is there a "Gulf War syndrome"? Within a few months of returning home in 1991, some of the 750,000 Gulf War veterans from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada began complaining of fatigue, headaches, joint pains, sleep disturbances, cognitive difficulties, and other physical (somatic) symptoms (1). Approxima...

A review of the evidence for a "Gulf War syndrome".

These include: References http://oem.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/58/11/754#BIBL This article cites 15 articles, 6 of which can be accessed free at: Rapid responses http://oem.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletter-submit/58/11/754 You can respond to this article at: service Email alerting top right corner of the article Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article sign up in the box ...

Searching for a Gulf War syndrome using cluster analysis.

BACKGROUND Gulf veterans report medically unexplained symptoms more frequently than non-Gulf veterans did. We examined whether Gulf and non-Gulf veterans could be distinguished by their patterns of symptom reporting. METHOD A k-means cluster analysis was applied to 500 randomly sampled veterans from each of three United Kingdom military cohorts of veterans; those deployed to the Gulf conflict...