Understanding how the Vietnam Veteran generation is faring today in terms of behavioral, physical and social health is a critical undertaking for several reasons. First, Vietnam Veterans constitute the largest living cohort of United States (US) Veterans and are the modal users of US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) services. There are also international cohorts of Vietnam Veterans, as Austr...

PURPOSE Determine acceptance of and compliance with intranasal cobalamin (vitamin B12) replacement therapy. METHODS Veteran subjects were recruited from VA Outpatient facilities in Hawai'i. Information was obtained by interview and medical record review. Subjects received the standard dose of intranasal cobalamin of 500 micrograms intranasally, once a week. A follow-up questionnaire was admin...

The objective of this study was to describe the feasibility of using Facebook as a platform to recruit and retain young adult veteran drinkers into an online-alcohol use intervention study. Facebook's wide accessibility and popularity among the age group that comprises the majority of veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan make it a compelling resource through which research can ex...

BACKGROUND The number of elderly combat veterans is steadily increasing in the US and estimates project that a notable percentage of these veterans experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Limited data exist specifically related to prevalence, assessment, and treatment of PTSD among the elderly veteran population. OBJECTIVE This review summarizes the available research rel...

BACKGROUND The health and well-being of military veterans has recently generated much media and political interest. Estimating the current and future size of the veteran population is important to the planning and allocation of veteran support services. METHODS Data from a 2007 nationally representative residential survey of England (the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey) were extrapolated t...

Measuring lactate threshold to predict endurance performance is difficult among veteran athletes, due to age-related decreases in net lactate concentration. The objective of this study was to determine whether lactate threshold, as assessed using the maximal deviation method (Dmax), which is not dependent on net values of lactate, could be used as a more valid measure of 5-km treadmill running ...

  Background: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a lower health related quality of life (HRQOL) compared to both healthy controls and the normal population. The aim of this study was to compare HRQOL between two groups of veteran and non-veteran SCI patients.   Methods : All male paraplegic non-veterans who had sustained complete SCI before 1988 and were residents of Tehran province (I...