The use of supplements is widespread at all levels of civilian sport and a prevalence of 60-90 % is reported among high-performance UK athletes, including juniors. The prevalence of supplement use among UK-based British Army personnel is not known. The aim of the present study was to establish the point prevalence of supplement use in UK-based British Army soldiers under training (SuTs) and ass...

BACKGROUND HIV/AIDS has been described as the fourth largest cause of death globally and leading cause of death in Africa∙HIV/AIDS has been a devastating inferno for nearly 30 years, and has particularly impacted countries in sub-Saharan Africa∙In most African countries, it has been reported that the HIV infection amongst the military has been shown to be about 2 to 5 times higher than their ci...

OBJECTIVES Our objective was to analyze the association between deployment characteristics and diagnostic rates for major depression and substance use disorder among active duty personnel. METHODS Using active duty personnel serving between 2001 and 2006 (n = 678,382) and deployment information from the Contingent Tracking System, we identified individuals diagnosed with substance use disorde...

The U.S. Army Special Forces--Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Field Epidemiological Survey Team (Airborne) was formed in late 1965 and later deployed to Vietnam in 1966. Funded by Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and staffed by highly trained Special Forces qualified medical personnel from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the team was attached to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) ...

Introduction. Alfred S. Evans Current Patterns of Acute Respiratory Disease in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Dennis F. Hoeffler Acute Respiratory Disease in the United States Army in the Republic of Viet Nam, 1965-1970. Jay P. Sanford Control ofAdenovirus Acute Respiratory Disease in U.S. Army Trainees. Franklin H. Top, Jr. Control ofMeningococcal Meningitis with Vaccines. Malcolm S....

IN 1942 the writer prepared some notes on the American Army Medical Services 'for the Medical Personnel (Priority) Committee on. which he is the Army representative. In 1944, he visited the Third Army by the kindness of Major-General Paul Hawley, Chief Surgeon, European Theatre of Operations,. U.S.A., and this year, thanks to the courtesy of Brigadier-GeReral J. Martin, the Army Surgeon, 5th U....

This paper presents a model for representing historical military personnel and army units, based on large datasets about World War II in Finland. The model is in use in WarSampo data service and semantic portal, which has had tens of thousands of distinct visitors. A key challenge is how to represent ontological changes, since the ranks and units of military personnel, as well as the names and ...

UNLABELLED This study measured 21 anthropometric dimensions (ADs) of 94 Korean male helicopter pilots in their 20s to 40s and compared them with corresponding measurements of Korean male civilians and the US Army male personnel. The ADs and the sample size of the anthropometric survey were determined by a four-step process: (1) selection of ADs related to helicopter cockpit design, (2) evaluati...

In Colombia, the cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is the most common manifestation across the army personnel. Hence, it is mandatory to determine the species associated with the disease as well as the association with the clinical traits. A total of 273 samples of male patients with CL were included in the study and clinical data of the patients was studied. PCR and sequencing analyses (Cytb and HS...