![]() Symptoms or even physical signs of disease, well-designed clinical studies mustīe employed to understand the efficacy of any medical intervention. (psychological or otherwise) will often result in marked improvement in Some of these interventions could even prove harmful to individual patients.įinally, since placebo treatment of patients with almost any ailment ![]() These raiseĮthically troublesome questions about the lack of documented efficacy, and Promote the treatment of clinically evident manifestations of UI. The committee has been troubled by news stories about activities to HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE PERSIAN GULF WAR Hypothesis could account for all of these, whether or not the illnesses result from Of abnormalities that have been reported and the strong likelihood that no single Number and variety of hypotheses call attention to the variety of different types To illustrate the issues that faced both the investigators and the committee. Thus, this list is not intended to be exhaustive or complete, but rather That the committee received is provided herein. (GWS), and we refer to as unexplained illnesses (UI).Ī precis of many of the hypotheses and much of the supporting evidence Problem presented by what some have referred to as a "Gulf War Syndrome" Many investigations (both federal and private) and the putative causalĪssociations that we evaluated demonstrate the vexing nature of the medical Our overall impression of the health consequences of service in the Gulf. InĮach case, the material presented by individuals and groups, in person or inĭocuments, was evaluated by the entire committee and considered as we formed Some investigators brought their work to the attention of the committee. Hypotheses have had various degrees of plausibility and supporting research. Suggested a wide variety of associations among agents and exposures,Ĭircumstances that existed in the Gulf, and adverse clinical outcomes. Numerous hypotheses, often provided by independent investigators, that have In our attempt to investigate comprehensively the health-relatedĬonsequences of service in the Persian Gulf (PG), we have encountered Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages. Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book.
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