Symptoms, ill-health and quality of life in a support group of Porton Down veterans

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 329-337

  Allender, Steven ^a   Maconochie, Noreen ^b   Keegan, Thomas ^a   Brooks, Claire ^a   Fletcher, Tony ^b   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^c   Doyle, Pat ^b   Carpenter, Lucy M ^a   Venables, Katherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical warfare agents; Quality of life; Symptoms; Veterans

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SLEEP DISORDER; SUPPORT GROUP; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERAN; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; ENGLAND; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; VETERANS;

EID: 33747110584     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kql059     Document Type: Article

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