Gulf War veterans' health registries: Who is most likely to seek evaluation?
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Many veterans in the years since the Persian Gulf War have tried to get medical evaluation in the Dept. of Veterans Affairs Persian Gulf Veterans' Health Registry or in the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program of the Dept. of Defense. Characteristics of participants in the programs have been compared using data collected 1993-97. Service branch and type were strongly associated with registry participation. Those most likely to have participated were older, those stationed in the theater during the fighting, enlisted persons, construction workers, female, hospitalized during the 12 months before the conflict, and enlisted in the Army or National Guard.
Publication Name: American Journal of Epidemiology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9262
Year: 1998
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The postwar hospitalization experience of U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War
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Hospitalization rates among US Persian Gulf War veterans during the two years after the war were not higher than in a group of veterans who did not serve in the Persian Gulf. This was demonstrated by researchers who studied hospital data on 547,076 Persian Gulf veterans and 618,335 other veterans. Hospitalization rates were essentially similar in both groups. The Persian Gulf veterans had a higher incidence of certain diagnoses such as benign tumors, anemia and mental disorders. However, postwar stress and a delay in receiving health care could account for this difference.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1996
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Counterpoint: responding to suppositions and misunderstandings
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Criticism of a study on health effects of the Gulf War on US veterans is unjustified. The criticism was based on contentions relative to confidence interval calculations, the healthy soldier effect, and the contention that Gulf War veterans are more likely than undeployed veteran peers to be removed from the military services because they are unwell. The study was carried out under the superpopulation model in which the finite population correction is not appropriate. The model allows for stochastic variability in data.
Publication Name: American Journal of Epidemiology
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0002-9262
Year: 1998
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