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DOI10.1093/ije/dyi008
Assessing the potential health impact of the 1991 Gulf War on Saudi Arabian National Guard Soldiers
Gackstetter, GD; Hooper, TI; Al Qahtani, MS; Smith, TC; Memish, ZA; Schlangen, KM; Cruess, DF; Barrett, DH; Ryan, MAK; Gray, GC
通讯作者Gackstetter, GD
来源期刊INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
ISSN0300-5771
出版年2005
卷号34期号:4页码:801-808
英文摘要

Background There has been considerable publicity that the 1991 Gulf War may have caused a wide array of health problems in military personnel. Although post-war health outcomes have been studied in US, British, Canadian, Danish, and other deployed troops, this issue has not been previously evaluated in coalition forces native to the Gulf region.


Methods A collaborative team of US and Saudi health researchers was assembled, data sources evaluated, and hospitalizations among Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) soldiers between 1991 and 1999 analysed. Multivariate modelling was used to evaluate differences between 8342 soldiers exposed to combat at Al Khafji and a comparison group of 7270 soldiers in the Riyadh area.


Results Among 15 612 SANG soldiers, we identified 148 with at least one hospitalization over the 9 years following the war. The adjusted rate of hospitalization was higher in the combat-exposed group (risk ratio (RR) = 1.80, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.25-2.59). No unusual patterns of diagnoses were found and, because the overall number of hospitalizations was low, the absolute difference in risk was found to be very small.


Conclusions This is the first reported epidemiological investigation of post-war hospitalizations among coalition forces native to the Gulf region that participated in the 1991 Gulf War. A very small increase in hospitalizations was identified in SANG soldiers exposed to combat at Al Khafji. However, because of data limitations, the clinical relevance of this finding should be interpreted with caution. Future collaborative studies to better understand the health effects of deployment should be encouraged.


英文关键词Saudi Arabia Persian Gulf syndrome Gulf War syndrome morbidity hospitalization military personnel military medicine military deployment veterans health occupational exposure environmental exposure
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA ; Saudi Arabia
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000231360300021
WOS关键词POSTWAR HOSPITALIZATION EXPERIENCE ; PERSIAN-GULF ; UNITED-KINGDOM ; ILL HEALTH ; MILITARY PERSONNEL ; DESERT-STORM ; RISK-FACTORS ; VETERANS ; SYMPTOMS ; ILLNESS
WOS类目Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS研究方向Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/149299
作者单位(1)Uniformed Serv Univ Hlth Sci, Dept Prevent Med & Biometr, Bethesda, MD 20814 USA;(2)King Fahad Natl Guard Hosp, Natl Guard Hlth Affairs, Infect Prevent & Control Program, King Abdul Aziz Med Ctr, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;(3)USN, Hlth Res Ctr, Dept Def, Ctr Dev Hlth Res, San Diego, CA 92186 USA;(4)Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Off Director, Natl Ctr Environm Hlth, Atlanta, GA USA;(5)Ctr Dis Control & Prevent, Agcy Tox Subst & Dis Registry, Atlanta, GA USA;(6)Univ Iowa, Gen Hosp C21D, Coll Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
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Gackstetter, GD,Hooper, TI,Al Qahtani, MS,et al. Assessing the potential health impact of the 1991 Gulf War on Saudi Arabian National Guard Soldiers[J],2005,34(4):801-808.
APA Gackstetter, GD.,Hooper, TI.,Al Qahtani, MS.,Smith, TC.,Memish, ZA.,...&Gray, GC.(2005).Assessing the potential health impact of the 1991 Gulf War on Saudi Arabian National Guard Soldiers.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY,34(4),801-808.
MLA Gackstetter, GD,et al."Assessing the potential health impact of the 1991 Gulf War on Saudi Arabian National Guard Soldiers".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 34.4(2005):801-808.
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