American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 30, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(7):708-709; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj297
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Letter to the Editor |
RE: "CHRONIC MULTISYMPTOM ILLNESS COMPLEX IN GULF WAR I VETERANS 10 YEARS LATER"
Deployment Health Clinic, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98108
(e-mail: stephen.hunt@med.va.gov)
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The high prevalence (28.9 percent) of chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) in combat veterans from the first Gulf War, noted in a recent Veterans Affairs study (1
), corroborates the findings of earlier studies (2
, 3
) and is consistent with evidence of nonspecific physical symptoms associated with military combat dating back to the Civil War (4
). The authors report an apparently