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Considerations for Designing an Epidemiologic Study for Multiple Sclerosis and Other Neurologic Disorders in Pre and Post 9/11 Gulf War Veterans (2015) / Chapter Skim
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C-- SUMMARY TABLE
Pages 29-34

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... C SUMMARY TABLE This appendix includes a summary table of selected reports and studies that describe the burden of illness in the 1990-1991 Gulf War and OEF/OIF/OND veteran populations.
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... (VA) Study Utilization reports Utilization reports Evaluated the risk Survey data used Examined headache Designed to Studied cancer Description of pre 9/11 of post 9/11 of developing MS to report outcomes disorder in a large determine diagnoses in Gulf veterans using the veterans using the and other central related to population-based prevalence, War era veterans.
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... brain cancer) Number of 286,995 deployed 1,126,173 696,118 deployed 15,000 Gulf War 38,361 combat 978 US Army 621,902 deployed Subjects veterans OEF/OIF/OND Gulf War veterans veterans deployed and 746,248 era veterans Gulf War veterans Comparison 269,635 None 1,786,215 15,000 era veterans Non-combat US population Gulf War veterans Group nondeployed using nondeployed deployed and Gulf War era VA health care veterans veterans services Data Provide counts for Provide counts for An incident cohort Phase 1: 16-page Baseline cohort: A Self-administered Review of DMDC, Collection selected health selected health of MS and ODD structured random sample of questionnaire state cancer Methods care diagnoses for care diagnoses for was assembled from questionnaire sent 256,400 service registries, and VA veterans using VA veterans using VA Gulf War era to each of the members of the 2.2 cancer registry health care.
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... : MS (ICD-9 340) : For 1990-1991 Migraines: Combat deployed Findings indicate Brain cancer: deployed 1,040; 1,529 deployed Gulf War veterans: 16.5% of the had statistically that the prevalence 278 in deployed and nondeployed 1,089 deployed and 9.3% significantly higher of chronic daily 410 in era Gulf War Migraine (ICD-9 MS and ODD: of the era veterans adjusted odds of headache is four to veterans.
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... brain cancer) Strengths/ Limited to those Limited to those Strengths include Strengths include A strength is the Limitations include Strengths include Limitations veterans using VA veterans using VA prospective study large number ofthe ability to retrospective associating cancer health care health care design, use of estimate headache subjects who were reporting of incidence outcomes services.
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