Sentences with phrase «gulf war veterans»

Predictors of exercise compliance in individuals with Gulf War veterans illnesses: Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study 470

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After a study last year on Gulf War veterans showed a certain allele may prevent brain atrophy, University researchers wanted to extend the research to the general population.

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Ms. Gwini and coauthors conclude that their results «highlight the continuing problem and magnitude of MSI in Gulf War veterans, calling for ongoing awareness of the need for timely health assessments and health care.»

Veterans who were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan were more likely to have MSI than nondeployed personnel — but their risk was still not as high as in deployed Gulf War veterans.

«Gulf War deployment continues to be strongly associated with increased MSI, affecting a considerable proportion of Gulf War veterans,» write Stella M. Gwini and colleagues of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

The study provides «updated and more robust estimates» of the risk of MSI in Gulf War veterans, compared to other military personnel.

«Gulf War veterans still have high rate of multisymptom illness.»

«This is an attempt to give a scientific imprimatur to the stance of the government, which is unacceptable,» argues Malcolm Hooper, a medical chemist from the University of Sunderland who advises the British Gulf War veterans.

Although estimates varied widely, MSI prevalence was substantially higher in Gulf War veterans: 26 to 65 percent, compared with 12 to 37 percent in Iraq / Afghanistan War veterans.

Exposure to the nerve gas agents sarin and cyclosarin has been linked in several studies to changes in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that are associated with cognitive impairments in Gulf War veterans.

For the study published in Traffic, the researchers did not use pluripotent cells lines derived from Gulf War veterans, but said they plan to use veterans» cells in the future for more refined results.

The authors of the new report argue that neurotoxins are the likeliest explanation for the fatigue, muscle and joint pain, memory loss, and dizziness that has plagued tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans.

In addition, the Committee said, new evidence has emerged suggesting that certain exposures may be linked to brain cancer in Gulf War veterans.

In 2008, a Congressionally mandated panel directed by White — the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans» Illnesses — issued a landmark report concluding that Gulf War Illness was a «real» disorder, distinct from stress - related syndromes, and urging a robust research effort into its causes and potential cures.

Compared with healthy non-deployed controls, Gulf War veterans had more mtDNA content and greater mtDNA damage.

Gulf War veterans have complained for years that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has not taken the illness seriously.

The report makes clear that psychiatric problems «have been ruled out» as a cause of Gulf War Illness, noting that Gulf War veterans have lower rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychiatric disorders than their counterparts who served in other wars.

While the RAC panel applauded an increase in the number of treatment studies funded by the Department of Defense's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, it expressed grave concerns about a lack of research on other health problems and mortality among Gulf War veterans.

New preliminary research shows, for the first time, direct evidence of greater mitochondrial damage in Gulf War veterans.

«Toxic exposures caused illness in Gulf War veterans, new report says.»

To create the repository, the researchers are taking blood cells from Gulf War veterans and «reprogramming» them into their «pluripotent» state, which can then be transformed into any type of cell, from a kidney to a neuron.

One in four Gulf War veterans suffers from Gulf War Illness (GWI).

«Toxic wounds» resulted in damage to veterans» nervous systems and immune systems, including neuroendocrine and immune dysregulation, autonomic nervous system irregularities, and reduced white and gray matter in veterans» brains, a new review on Gulf War veterans says.

Gulf War veterans with low - level exposure to chemical weapons show lasting adverse effects on brain structure and memory function, reports a study in the October Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Yale University psychiatrist Steven Southwick surveyed Gulf War veterans first one month, then two years after traumatic events.

«Based on a study of hens or rats, it would be impossible to say whether this combination of chemicals helps explain the causes of undiagnosed illnesses reported by some Gulf War veterans,» the Department of Defense says in a statement.

A report published earlier this year by the US Institute of Medicine concluded that there was no firm evidence that Gulf War veterans were suffering more of these symptoms than the population at large, and if they were, whether there was a single cause.

These findings resemble those reported for Gulf War veterans, suggesting that the cognitive problems suffered by veterans may be similar, even if their war experiences are not.

Yale University psychiatrist Steven Southwick surveyed Gulf War veterans first one month and then two years after experiencing traumatic events.

Many Gulf War veterans, Kroot included, suffer from symptoms of exertional fatigue, such as pain or a high heart rate after exercise.

Like many other Gulf War veterans with similar symptoms, Kroot was told her problems were due to mental stress and best treated with an antidepressant.

Gulf War veterans were another «tilted» group.

«A CDC study found that sick Gulf War veterans reported more chemical intolerances than their healthy counterparts.

The content of the air had no impact on healthy subjects, but for sick Gulf War veterans, it was a different story.

Miller, meanwhile, has found decreased blood flow through the central artery in the brains of Gulf War veterans suffering from TILT.

Amidst the proposed budget downsizing, the VA would prioritize research around pain management and opioid addiction, mental health and suicide, and Gulf War Veterans Illness.

The names of the Rhinebeck Gulf War Veterans are listed on the plaque.

We can also bring in some gulf War veterans who lost limbs, and they can pray for their recovery.

«Historically, the bill for these costs has come due many decades later,» Bilmes noted in a recent study, disability expenses for WW I veterans peaked in 1969 and for WW II veterans in the late 1980s, the cost of caring for Vietnam and first Gulf War veterans is still climbing.

Gun - toting Gulf War veteran Pastor Jerome Jeffries embodies a kinder take.

The Labour leader went on to put a question from a Gulf War veteran, noting that a private in the army would lose # 2,000 next April.

U.S. Navy, gulf war veteran, old school skateboarder, punkrocker, born and raised in the Houston Heights.

Christian Bale delivers a bravura performance as an unhinged Gulf War veteran leading his boyhood best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) astray during a drug - fueled foray into the seedier side of Los Angeles in this gritty drama.

Plot: Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is a Gulf War veteran with PTSD who is completely unafraid of violence.

Phoenix plays a tormented, hammer - wielding Gulf War veteran with violent tendencies living in New York, where he's regularly recruited to find missing children, including a teenager (Ekaterina Samsonov) whose whereabouts uncover secrets about sex trafficking and political corruption.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

It brilliantly investigates, from every angle, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, and the gripping conclusion it comes to is that Timothy McVeigh, the 27 - year - old Gulf War veteran who killed 168 people that day, wasn't «crazy» so much as he was the disturbed quintessence of the new right wing.

Ms. Cruz is a disabled combat Gulf War veteran and the first and former Enforcement Manager for Miami Dade Animal Services.