Gulf War Illness as a Brain Autoimmune Disorder

Abstract

The primary emphasis of the third year of the grant has been continued recruitment of study participants and data analysis. We have completed an additional 75 acquisitions during the third year of the grant. In addition to the two manuscripts published during the last reporting period (Georgopoulos et al. 2017 EBioMedicine 10, 3217-3225; James et al. 2017 EBioMedicine 26, 126-131), we have another manuscript in preparation that demonstrates the association between GWI symptom severity and various laboratory measures of immune system functioning and inflammation. We requested (and were awarded) a no cost extension to continue recruitment to meet our goal of 200 participants. To date, we have completed 173 of 200 planned acquisitions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1095169

Entities

People

  • Apostolos Georgopoulos

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Biological Sciences
  • Biomedical Research
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Data Analysis
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Electronic Mail
  • Gulfs
  • Immune System
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Medical Personnel
  • Neuroimaging
  • Persian Gulf Syndrome
  • Procurement
  • Professional Development
  • Technology Transfer
  • War

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Gulf War Illness and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.