Rates of Chronic Medical Conditions in 1991 Gulf War Veterans Compared to the General Population
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Symptoms and medical conditions in Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: relation to immunisations and other Gulf War exposures.
AIMS To investigate whether Australian Gulf War veterans have a higher than expected prevalence of recent symptoms and medical conditions that were first diagnosed in the period following the 1991 Gulf War; and if so, whether these effects were associated with exposures and experiences that occurred in the Gulf War. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 1456 Australian Gulf War veterans and a comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16060949