Increased postwar symptoms and psychological morbidity among U.S. Navy Gulf War veterans

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 758-766

  Gray, Gregory C ^a   Kaiser, Kevin S ^a   Hawksworth, Anthony W ^a   Hall, Frank W ^a   Barrett Connor, Elizabeth ^b  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NEUROSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEROLOGY; SOLDIER; SYMPTOM; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; WAR;

EID: 0032901734     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.758     Document Type: Article

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