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A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE FOR A "GULF WAR SYNDROME"
Khalida Ismail
Correspondence to: Dr Khalida Ismail, Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE24 0AQ, UK khalida.ismail@iop.kcl.ac.uk
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 Introduction
 CLINICAL FEATURES OF ILL...
Gulf War specific exposures
Role of stress
Other explanatory factors
Treatments
Outcome studies
Methodological problems
Lessons for the future
Conclusions
References
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On 2 August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Four days later, nearly 700 000 US troops and an international coalition of 100 000 military personnel were mobilised to the Gulf under Operation Desert Shield, which included 53 000 members of the UK Armed Forces under Operation Granby. The air campaign, Operation Desert Storm, began on the 17 January 1991. On 24 February 1991, a ground war was conducted which lasted only four days. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers were killed in the hostilities, on the infamous Basra "Death" Road, one of the main routes they used to enter and leave Kuwait. There were less than 300 deaths in the allied forces.
Within months after the hostilities had ended reports of US Gulf
veterans complaining of various symptoms began
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Occup. Environ. Med. 2001 58: 711-715.
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