Factor Analysis of Fatiguing Syndrome in Gulf War Era Veterans: Implications for Etiology and Pathogenesis

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1268-1273

  Young, Heather A ^a   Simmens, Samuel J ^a   Kang, Han K ^b   Mahan, Clare M ^b   Levine, Paul H ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOLDIER; WAR;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 0346325888     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000100139.56744.d0     Document Type: Article

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