Physical, psychological, and functional comorbidities of multisymptom Illness in Australian male veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 170, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1048-1056

  Kelsall, Helen L ^a   McKenzie, Dean P ^a   Sim, Malcolm R ^a   Leder, Karin ^a   Forbes, Andrew B ^a   Dwyer, Terence ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Fatigue; Gulf War; Psychology; Quality of life; Veterans

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLISM; ANEMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOLDIER; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; VETERAN; WAR;

AUSTRALIA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; VETERANS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 70349665200     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp238     Document Type: Article

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