Is there a Gulf War syndrome? Searching for syndromes by factor analysis of symptoms

JAMA

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 215-222

  Haley, Robert W ^a   Kurt, Thomas L ^a   Hom, Jim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c The Neuropsychology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOLDIER; WAR;

EID: 0031021513     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.277.3.215     Document Type: Article

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