Military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf War have reported a variety of symptoms attributed to their exposures. We examined relationships between symptoms of respiratory illness present 5 years after the war and both self-reported and modeled exposures to oil-fire smoke that occurred during deployment. Exposure and symptom information was obtained by structured telephone interview in a p...

© American Academy of Pain Medicine 1526-2375/04/$15.00/333 333–334 Pain, typically of musculoskeletal or unexplained origin, was one of the most common symptoms reported by military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf prior, during, and following the 1991 Gulf War [1]. Despite the brief duration of armed conflict and the limited number of casualties, almost 15% of US Persian Gulf War (PGW) ...

This study describes the injuries, complications, functional limitations, and rehabilitative needs of amputees managed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center during the Persian Gulf conflict (1991). Fourteen amputees were treated sustaining 21 amputations with 18 lower-limb and 3 upper-limb amputations. In six casualties there were multiple amputations. Battle injuries were the cause in 79%. Nerve ...

M ore than 2 years after the Gulf conflict, scientists are continuing to keep a close watch on marine pollution stemming from the war. Following the conflict in early 1991, major concern was raised worldwide when an estimated four to eight million barrels of crude oil were directly released into the Persian Gulf from the Sea Island terminal in Kuwait. Such amounts clearly made it the largest oi...

Pain, typically of musculoskeletal or unexplained origin, was one of the most common symptoms reported by military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf prior, during, and following the 1991 Gulf War [1]. Despite the brief duration of armed conflict and the limited number of casualties, almost 15% of US Persian Gulf War (PGW) veterans have pursued treatment for Gulf War-related problems [2]. H...

Iran’s security is affected by a broad region that includes the Caspian Basin, Central Asia, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Turkey, and the Middle East. However, an increased focus on the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), as well as Iraq, on the one hand, and with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (including Yemen) on the other, provides a na...

Since 1993, many studies on the health of Persian Gulf War Veterans (PGWV) have been undertaken. These studies have concluded that there has been an increased mortality due to external causes, no excess of recognized diseases, and no effect on PGWV children. When compared with the non-deployed, PGWV have reported a higher frequency of infertility as well as different symptoms, but a specific Gu...