Mortality among U.S. Veterans of the Persian Gulf War
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- 14 November 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 335 (20) , 1498-1504
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199611143352006
Abstract
Since the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War, there has been persistent concern that U.S. war veterans may have had adverse health consequences, including higher-than-normal mortality.Keywords
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