Editorial
New challenges facing ill health in Gulf war veterans
Between August 1990 and February 1991, nearly 1 million servicemen and women (670 000 from the United States, 45 000 from the United Kingdom and the rest from other nations) representing the United Nations were deployed to the Persian Gulf to oppose the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Within months of returning from the Gulf conflict, case reports of veterans complaining of multiorgan, non-specific symptoms began to emerge first in the United States and then the United Kingdom. Since then hundreds of millions of dollars and millions of pounds in research grants have been spent, yet the nature of ill health in Gulf veterans remains controversial.
Methodological flaws hampered early studies based on case reports,
highly selected samples, and voluntary registers. These were followed
by population based studies representative of the military that
provided prevalence data on various indices of health. The main
findings from these studies were
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Occup. Environ. Med. 2001 58: 354.
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