Gulf War and health. Vol. 8, Update of health effects of serving in the Gulf War / Committee on Gulf War and Health: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial effects of Deployment-Related Stress, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

For the United States, the 1991 Persian Gulf War was a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. However, soon after returning from duty, a large number of veterans began reporting health problems they believed were associated with their service in the Gulf. At the reques...

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