The study of reproductive outcome and the health of offspring of UK veterans of the Gulf war: Methods and description of the study population

BMC Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-11

  Maconochie, Noreen ^a   Doyle, Pat ^a   Davies, Graham ^a   Lewis, Samantha ^a   Pelerin, Margo ^b   Prior, Susan ^a   Sampson, Patrick ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MALFORMATION; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HEAD AND NECK MALFORMATION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGENY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT MALFORMATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLDIER; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; WAR; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HEALTH; INFERTILITY; NEWBORN; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 3042677866     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-3-4     Document Type: Article

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