The postwar hospitalization experience of U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 1505-1513

  Gray, Gregory C ^a   Coate, Bruce D ^a   Anderson, Christy M ^a   Kang, Han K ^b   Berg, S William ^c   Wignall, F Stephen ^d   Knoke, James D ^a   Barrett Connor, Elizabeth ^e  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c Navy Environmental Health Center   (United States)

^d US Naval Medical Research Unit No 2 Jakarta   (Indonesia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WAR;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE EAST; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 0029907303     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199611143352007     Document Type: Article

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