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Article: What Was Different about Exposures Reported by Male Australian Gulf War Veterans for the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Compared with Exposures Reported for Other Deployments?
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- Military Medicine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Jul 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This study identified chemical and environmental exposures specifically associated with the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Exposures were self-reported in a postal questionnaire, in the period of 2000-2002, by 1,424 Australian male Persian Gulf War veterans in relation to their 1991 Persian Gulf War deployment and by 625 Persian Gulf War veterans and 514 members of a military comparison group in relation to other active deployments. Six of 28 investigated exposures were experienced more frequently during the Persian Gulf War than during other deployments; these were exposure to smoke (odds ratio [OR], 4.4; 95% confidence interval, 3.0-6.6), exposure to dust (OR, 3.7; 95% confidence interval, ...