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January 2002, Vol 92, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 46-47
© 2002 American Public Health Association

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Severely Reduced Functional Status in Veterans Fitting a Case Definition of Gulf War Syndrome

Robert W. Haley, MD, Ann Matt Maddrey, PhD and Howard K. Gershenfeld, MD, PhD

The authors are with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. Robert W. Haley is with the Epidemiology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, and Ann Matt Maddrey and Howard K. Gershenfeld are with the Department of Psychiatry.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Robert W. Haley, MD, Epidemiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-8874 (e-mail: robert.haley@utsouthwestern.edu).


   INTRODUCTION
 
More than 110 000 (16%) of the 696 000 US military personnel who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been granted service-connected disability compensation.1 This is 2 to 3 times the rate that followed World War II (8.6%), the Korean Conflict (5%), or the Vietnam War (9.6%).1 Although many veterans report serious impairments in daily functioning, no research, to our knowledge, has assessed the health impact of Gulf War syndrome as measured by a systematic case definition.

In 1997, Haley et al. described a case definition of Gulf War syndrome composed of 3 primary symptom complexes (syndromes) beginning . . . [Full Text]


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