Deployment stressors and a chronic multisymptom illness among Gulf War veterans

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 259-266

  Nisenbaum, Rosane ^a   Barrett, Drue H ^b   Reyes, Michele ^a   Reeves, William C ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MOOD; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PEST CONTROL; SELF REPORT; SOLDIER; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAR;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STRESS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 0034028729     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200005000-00002     Document Type: Article

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