Neuroepidemiologic Case Definition of Gulf War Illness from Neuroimaging and EEG in a Population-Representative Nested Case-Control Sample of Gulf War Veterans

Abstract

The study will involve analysis of previously generated epidemiology data. Over the past 20 years a rigorously population-based epidemiologic study measured the standard list of symptoms of Gulf War illness (GWI) in a representative sample of 8,020 Gulf War-era veterans; scored all three major GWI case definitions--Factor, CDC and Kansas--with a full array of clinical diagnoses and laboratory findings and measures of symptom onset, duration, and severity; a subclassification of the CDC definition derived by factor analysis and validated by multiple objective measures; and with all analyses tested for differences due to effect modification by race and gender. The databases also contain the data for a hypothesis-driven 12-year longitudinal study of GWI natural history of symptoms and symptom descriptive characteristics in a subpopulation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1048277

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  • Robert W. Haley

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  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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  • Biomedical

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  • Persian Gulf Syndrome
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  • Psychology

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