"Persian Gulf Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Unexplained symptoms reported by veterans of the Persian Gulf War with Iraq in 1991. The symptoms reported include fatigue, skin rash, muscle and joint pain, headaches, loss of memory, shortness of breath, gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms, and extreme sensitivity to commonly occurring chemicals. (Nature 1994 May 5;369(6475):8)
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D018923
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C24.653
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Persian Gulf Syndrome" by people in Profiles.
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Association of deployment characteristics and exposures with persistent ill health?among 1990-1991 Gulf War veterans in the VA Million Veteran Program. Environ Health. 2024 Oct 25; 23(1):92.
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Association of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Hyperlipidemia With Gulf War Illness Among Gulf War Veterans. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 10 03; 12(19):e029575.
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Hormonal changes in veterans with Gulf War Illness. Life Sci. 2023 Sep 01; 328:121908.
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Lower blood malondialdehyde is associated with past pesticide exposure: findings in Gulf War illness and healthy controls. Mil Med Res. 2021 08 17; 8(1):46.
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Neuroimmune mechanisms of cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Gulf War illness. Brain Behav Immun. 2021 10; 97:204-218.
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Gulf war illness-related chemicals increase CD11b/c+ monocyte infiltration into the liver and aggravate hepatic cholestasis in a rodent model. Sci Rep. 2018 09 03; 8(1):13147.
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The Association Between Toxic Exposures and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans of the Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. J Occup Environ Med. 2017 01; 59(1):54-60.
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Evidence for abnormal cytokine expression in Gulf War Illness: A preliminary analysis of daily immune monitoring data. BMC Immunol. 2015 Sep 30; 16:57.
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Coenzyme Q10 benefits symptoms in Gulf War veterans: results of a randomized double-blind study. Neural Comput. 2014 Nov; 26(11):2594-651.
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Spatial analysis of the etiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among 1991 Gulf War veterans. Neurotoxicology. 2008 Nov; 29(6):964-70.