Invited commentary: insulin resistance syndrome? Syndrome X? Multiple metabolic syndrome? A syndrome at all? Factor analysis reveals patterns in the fabric of …

JB Meigs - American journal of epidemiology, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Factor analysis has emerged as a useful method for understanding patterns underlying the
co-occurrence of metabolic risk factors for both type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis—often …

Post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome-like illness among Gulf War veterans: a population-based survey of 30,000 veterans

HK Kang, BH Natelson, CM Mahan… - American journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The authors estimated the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and illness
resembling chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the entire population of Gulf War and non …

Prevalence and patterns of Gulf War illness in Kansas veterans: association of symptoms with characteristics of person, place, and time of military service

L Steele - American journal of epidemiology, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Gulf War veterans have reported health problems that they attribute to their military service,
but little is understood about the nature or extent of these conditions. To determine whether …

Prevalence of symptoms and symptom-based conditions among Gulf War veterans: current status of research findings

DH Barrett, GC Gray, BN Doebbeling… - Epidemiologic …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Shortly after the end of the Gulf War in March 1991, media reports began to
emerge that veterans were experiencing a variety of medically unexplained symptoms …

Illnesses among united states veterans of the gulf war:: a population-based survey of 30,000 veterans

HK Kang, CM Mahan, KY Lee, CA Magee… - … of Occupational and …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
Despite numerous studies on veterans of the 1990 to 1991 Gulf War, the fundamental
questions of how healthy they are and how their health compares with that of their military …

Self-reported symptoms and medical conditions among 11,868 Gulf War-era veterans: the Seabee Health Study

GC Gray, RJ Reed, KS Kaiser, TC Smith… - American Journal of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
US Navy Seabees have been among the most symptomatic Gulf War veterans. Beginning in
May 1997, the authors mailed Gulf War-era Seabees a health survey in serial mailings. As of …

Mortality among US veterans of the Persian Gulf War: 7-year follow-up

HK Kang, TA Bullman - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - academic.oup.com
To assess the long-term health consequences of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the authors
compared cause-specific mortality rates of 621,902 Gulf War veterans with those of 746,248 …

War-related psychological stressors and risk of psychological disorders in Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

JF Ikin, MR Sim, MC Creamer, AB Forbes… - The British Journal of …, 2004 - cambridge.org
BackgroundQuestions remain about the long-term health impacts of the 1991 Gulf War on its
veterans. AimsTo measure psychological disorders in Australian Gulf War veterans and a …

Health and exposures of United Kingdom Gulf war veterans. Part II: The relation of health to exposure

N Cherry, F Creed, A Silman, G Dunn… - Occupational and …, 2001 - oem.bmj.com
OBJECTIVES To investigate whether, in personnel who served with the United Kingdom
forces in the Gulf war, self reported exposures were related to symptoms in a way that was …

Is there a Persian Gulf War syndrome? Evidence from a large population-based survey of veterans and nondeployed controls

BN Doebbeling, WR Clarke, D Watson… - The American journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Concerns have been raised about whether veterans of the Gulf War have a
medical illness of uncertain etiology. We surveyed veterans to look for evidence of an illness …