Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans report symptoms consistent with chronic multisymptom illness one year after deployment.

Original Contribution Chronic Multisymptom Illness: A Comparison of Iraq and Afghanistan Deployers With Veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

Symptoms and illnesses reported by veterans of the 1991 Gulf War era are a cause of potential concern for those military members who have deployed to theGulf region in support of more recent contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the present study, we quantified self-reported symptoms from participants in the Millennium Cohort Study, a prospective study representing all US service b...

Chronic multisymptom illness: a comparison of Iraq and Afghanistan deployers with veterans of the 1991 Gulf War.

Symptoms and illnesses reported by veterans of the 1991 Gulf War era are a cause of potential concern for those military members who have deployed to the Gulf region in support of more recent contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the present study, we quantified self-reported symptoms from participants in the Millennium Cohort Study, a prospective study representing all US service ...

Systematic reviews of psychological disorders, multisymptom illness and chronic fatigue syndrome in veterans deployed to the Gulf War, Afghanistan or Iraq War

War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC): a multidisciplinary translational approach to the care of Veterans with chronic multisymptom illness.

INTRODUCTION Chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) is defined as the presence for at least 6 months of one or more of the following three symptom complexes: musculoskeletal pain, general fatigue, and mood or cognitive problems. CMI has been documented after armed conflicts since the Civil War and unfortunately has surfaced again as Veterans return from the theaters of operation in Afghanistan and ...

Prospective assessment of chronic multisymptom illness reporting possibly associated with open-air burn pit smoke exposure in Iraq.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) and possible exposure to an open-air burn pit at three selected bases among those deployed to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS Chronic multisymptom illness (reporting at least one symptom in at least two of the following symptom constructs: general fatigue; mood and cognition problems; and musculos...