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Validation of a Research Case Definition of Gulf War Illness in the 1991 US Military Population
Author(s) -
Vincent G. Iannacchione,
Jill A. Dever,
Carla Bann,
Kathleen Considine,
Darryl Creel,
Christopher P. Carson,
Heather Best,
Robert W. Haley
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000331478
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , population , navy , gulf war , demography , veterans affairs , sample (material) , stratified sampling , gerontology , statistics , environmental health , pathology , law , history , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , sociology , political science , economic history
A case definition of Gulf War illness with 3 primary variants, previously developed by factor analysis of symptoms in a US Navy construction battalion and validated in clinic veterans, identified ill veterans with objective abnormalities of brain function. This study tests prestated hypotheses of its external validity.

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