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...

Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic multi-symptom disorder affecting up to one-third of the 700,000 returning veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War and for which there is no known cure. GWI symptoms span several of the body's principal regulatory systems and include debilitating fatigue, severe musculoskeletal pain, cognitive and neurological problems. Using computational models, our group repo...

© 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...

Data from veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement were studied to assess the potential of second-order factor analysis in examining, interpreting, and directing person-environment interventions with an array of different but related individual and environmental problems. Participants of the study were 1,532 veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement who were eligible for social services provided b...

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...