War Related Illness and Injury Study Center

Gulf War

• Allen N, Crock L, Chun T, Reinhard MJ. Investigating a clinically informed sleep disturbance threshold for physical and mental health among Gulf War Illness veterans. Sleep Adv. 2024 Mar 28;5(1):zpae018. doi: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae018. PMID: 38616799
• Lesnewich LM, Lu SE, Weinreb KS, Sparks SO, Litke DR, Helmer DA, Pigeon WR, McAndrew LM. Associations between risky alcohol use, disability, and problem-solving impairment among Veterans with Gulf War Illness: Secondary data analysis of a randomized clinical trial.
  J Psychosom Res. 2023 Jul;170:111336. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111336. Epub 2023 Apr 11.PMID: 37087893
• Kane NS, Hassabelnaby R, Sullivan NL, Graff F, Litke DR, Quigley KS, Pigeon WR, Rath JF, Helmer DA, McAndrew LM. Veteran Beliefs About the Causes of Gulf War Illness and Expectations for Improvement.
  Int J Behav Med. 2023 Mar 27. doi: 10.1007/s12529-023-10166-1. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36973578
• Boruch AE, Lindheimer JB, Ninneman JV, Wylie GR, Alexander T, Klein-Adams JC, Stegner AJ, Gretzon NP, Samy B, Falvo MJ, Cook DB. Exercise-induced changes in gene expression do not mediate post exertional malaise in Gulf War illness.
  Brain Behav Immun Health. 2023 Mar 11;29:100612. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2023.100612. eCollection 2023 May.PMID: 36950022
• Winograd DM, Hyde JK, Bloeser K, Santos SL, Anastasides N, Petrakis BA, Pigeon WR, Litke DR, Helmer DA, McAndrew LM. Exploring the acceptability of behavioral interventions for veterans with persistent "medically unexplained" physical symptoms.
  J Psychosom Res. 2023 Apr;167:111193. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111193. Epub 2023 Feb 14.PMID: 36822031
• McAndrew LM, Quigley KS, Lu SE, Litke D, Rath JF, Lange G, Santos SL, Anastasides N, Petrakis BA, Greenberg L, Helmer DA, Pigeon WR. Effect of Problem-solving Treatment on Self-reported Disability Among Veterans With Gulf War Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Dec 1;5(12):e2245272. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.45272.PMID: 36472870
• Reinhard MJ, Allen N, Crock LE, McCarron KK, Veltkamp GM, Brewster RC. Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) Clinical Normative Data for Gulf War Veterans.
  J Occup Environ Med. 2022 Dec 1;64(12):e799-e804. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002706. Epub 2022 Oct 3.PMID: 36190917
• Aslaner DM, Saldana TA, MacKenzie DM, O’Piela DR, Miller RA, Schwieterman NA, Falvo MJ, Gorr MW, Wold LE. Short-term PM exposure and social stress reduce pulmonary and cardiac function.
  Toxicol Lett. 2022 Sep 16;370:66-73. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2022.09.006.
• Therkorn JH, Qian W, Toto DR, Falvo MJ. An analysis of alternatives for forced oscillation technique session reporting and validation methods in healthy adults: within- and between-session analysis.
  Sci Rep. 2022 Jul 30;12(1):13119. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-17264-2.
• Therkorn JH, Hu S, Sotolongo AM, Christie IC, Wu TD, Van Doren WH, Siva Sai Sujith Sajja V, Jani N, Klein-Adams JC, Helmer DA, Falvo MJ. Relationship between clinician documented blast exposure and pulmonary function: A retrospective chart review from a national specialty clinic.
  Respir Res. 2022 Jun 10;23(1):153. doi: 10.1186/s12931-022-02071-0.* Equal Contribution.
• Ninneman JV, Gretzon NP, Stegner AJ, Lindheimer JB, Falvo MJ, Wylie GR, Dougherty RJ, Almassi NE, Van Riper SM, Boruch AE, Dean DC, Koltyn KF, Cook DB. The Intersection of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain, Physical Activity, and Brain Gray Matter in Gulf War Veterans.
  J Neurosci 2022 Jun 13:JN-RM-2394-21. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2394-21.2022.
• Davis CW, Lopez CL, Bell AJ, Miller RF, Rabin AS, Murray S, Falvo MJ, Han MK, Galban CJ, Osterholzer JJ. The severity of functional small airways disease in military personnel with constrictive bronchiolitis as measured by quantitative CT.
  Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 May 24. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202201-0153LE.
• Rabin A, Davis C, Sotolongo AM, Falvo MJ, Osterholzer JJ. Clinical Problem Solving: A burning question.
  N Engl J Med 2022 Apr 7;386(14):1352-1357. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcps2119930.
• Kane NS, Anastasides N, Litke DR, Helmer DA, Hunt SC, Quigley KS, Pigeon WR, McAndrew LM. Under diagnosis of medically unexplained conditions in US Veterans with Gulf War Illness.
  Plos One. 2021 Dec 7;16(12):e0259341. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259341. eCollection 2021.
• Chester JE, Rowneki M, Van Doren W, Helmer DA. (2019). Progression of intervention-focused research for Gulf War illness.
  Mil Med Res. Oct 18;6(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s40779-019-0221-x. PMID: 31627737; PMCID: PMC6798371. *
• Fox A, Helmer D, Tseng CL, McCarron K, Satcher S, Osinubi O. (2019).  Autonomic Symptoms in Gulf War Veterans Evaluated at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center.
  Mil Med. 184(3-4):e191-e196. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usy227.*
• Wylie GR, Genova H, Dobryakova E, DeLuca J, Chiaravalloti N, Falvo M, Cook D. (2019). Fatigue in Gulf War Illness is associated with tonically high activation in the executive control network.
  Neuroimage Clin. 21:101641. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.101641. *
• Lindheimer JB, Stegner AJ, Ellingson-Sayen LD, Van Riper SM, Dougherty RJ, Falvo MJ, Cook DB. (2019). Influence of pain anticipation on brain activity and pain perception in Gulf War Veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
  Psychophysiology. 56(12):e13452. doi:10.1111/psyp.13452. *
• Falvo MJ, Lindheimer JB, Serrador JM. (2018). Dynamic cerebral autoregulation is impaired in Veterans with Gulf War Illness: A case-control study.
  PLoS One.13(10):e0205393. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205393. *
• Khalil L, McNeil RB, Sims KJ, Felder KA, Hauser ER, Goldstein KM, Voils CI, Klimas NG, Brophy MT, Thomas CM, Whitley RL, Dursa EK, Helmer DA, Provenzale DT. (2018). The Gulf War Era Cohort and Biorepository: A Longitudinal Research Resource of Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War Era.
  Am J Epidemiol. 187(11):2279-2291. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwy147. *
• Wylie GR, Genova H, Dobryakova E, DeLuca J, Chiaravalloti N, Falvo M, Cook D. (2019). Fatigue in Gulf War Illness is associated with tonically high activation in the executive control network.
  Neuroimage Clin. 21:101641. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.101641. *
• Lindheimer JB, Stegner AJ, Ellingson-Sayen LD, Van Riper SM, Dougherty RJ, Falvo MJ, Cook DB. (2019). Influence of pain anticipation on brain activity and pain perception in Gulf War Veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
  Psychophysiology. 56(12):e13452. doi:10.1111/psyp.13452. *
• Butzko, RP, Sotolongo, AM, Helmer, DA, Klein-Adams, J, Osinubi, OY, Berman, AR, Ortiz-Pacheco, R, & Falvo, MJ. (2019). Forced oscillation technique in veterans with preserved spirometry and chronic respiratory symptoms.
  Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 260: 8-16.*
• Li M, Yao W, Sundahl C. Motor Unit Number Estimate and Isometric Hand Grip Strength in Military Veterans with or Without Muscular Complaints: Reference Values for Longitudinal Follow-up (2018).
  Military Medicine. (Vol. 00, 0/0:1)*
• Holliday, Stephanie Brooks PhD; Hull, Amanda PhD; Lockwood, Courtney PhD; Eickhoff, Christine MS; Sullivan, Patrick MS; Reinhard, Matthew PsyD (2014). Physical Health, Mental Health, and Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Services Among Gulf War Veterans.
  (2014). Medical Care. 2014 Dec;52(S39-S44J).*
• McCarron KK, Reinhard MJ, Bloeser KJ, Mahan CM, Kang HK. (2014). PTSD Diagnoses Among Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: Comparison of Administrative Data to Chart Review.
  (2014) J Trauma Stress. 2014 Oct;27(626-9).*
• Li M, Xu C, Yao W, Mahan CM, Kang HK, Sandbrink F, Zhai P, and Karasik PA (2014). Self-reported post-exertional fatigue in Gulf War Veterans: roles of autonomic testing.
  Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:269. *
• Helmer, D.A., Flanagan, M.E., Woolson, R.F., & Doebbeling, B.N. (2007). Health services use among Gulf War veterans and Gulf War era nondeployed veterans: A large population-based survey.
  American Journal of Public Health, 97, 2145-2148. *
• Toomey R, Kang HK, Karlinsky J, Baker D, Vasterling J, Alpern R, Reda D, Henderson W, Murphy F, Eisen S. (2007).  Mental health of US Gulf War veterans 10 years after the war.
  British J Psychiatry, 190:385-393*
• Blanchard MS, Eisen SA, Alpern R, Karlinsky J, Toomey R, Reda DJ, Murphy FM, Jackson LW, Kang HK. (2006). Chronic multisymptom illness complex in Gulf War I veterans 10 years later.
  Am J Epidemiol, 163:66-75.*
• Eisen SA, Karlinsky J, Jackson LW, Blanchard M, Kang HK, Murphy FM, Alpern R, et al. (2006). Spouses of Gulf War I veterans: medical evaluation of a U.S. cohort.
  Mil Med, 171(7):613-618. *
• Gackstetter GD, Hooper TI, DeBakey SF, Johnson A, Nagaraj BE, Heller JM, Kang HK. (2006). Fatal motor vehicle crashes among veterans of the 1991 Gulf War and exposure to munitions demolitions at Khamisiyah: a nested case control study.
  Am J Ind Med, 49:261-270.*
• Gray GC, Kang H.K. (2006). Healthcare utilization and mortality among veterans of the Gulf War.
  Phil Trans R Soc B, 361:553-569.*
• Hooper TI, DeBakey SF, Bellis KS, Kang HK, Cowan DN, Lincoln AE, Gackstetter G (2006). Understanding the effect of deployment on the risk of fatal motor vehicle crashes: a nested case-control study of fatalities in Gulf War era veterans, 1991-1995.
  Accid Anal Prev,38:518-525.*
• Levine PH, Richardson PK, Zolfaghari L, Cleary SD, Geist CE, Potolicchio S, Young HA, Simmens S, Schessel D, Williams K, Mahan CM, Kang HK. (2006). A study of Gulf War veterans with a possible deployment-related syndrome.
  Arch Environ Occup Health, 61:271-278.*
• Lincoln AE, Hooper TI, Kang HK, et al (2006). Motor vehicle fatalities among Gulf War era veterans: characteristics, mechanisms and circumstances.
  Traffic Inj Prev, 7:31-37.*
• Miller R, Costigan DJ, Young HA, Kang HK, et al (2006). Patterns of health care seeking of Gulf War registry members prior to deployment.
  Mil Med, 171:370-375.*
• Bullman TA, Mahan CM, Kang HK, Page WF (2005). Mortality in US Army Gulf War veterans exposed to 1991 Khamisiyah Chemical Munitions Destruction.
  Am J Public Health, 95:1382-1388.*
• Eisen SA, Kang HK, Murphy FM, et al. (2005). Gulf War veterans’ health: medical evaluation of a U.S. cohort.
  Ann Intern Med, 142:881-890. *
• Levine PH, Young HA, Simmens SJ, Rentz D, Kofie VE, Mahan CM, Kang HK. (2005). Is testicular cancer related to Gulf War Deployment? Evidence from a pilot population-based study of Gulf War era veterans and cancer registries.
  Mil Med, 170:149-153. *
• Mahan CM, Page WF, Bullman TA, Kang HK. (2005). Health effects in Army Gulf War veterans possibly exposed to chemical munitions destruction at Khamisiyah, Iraq, Part I. Morbidity associated with potential exposure.
  Mil Med, 170:935-944.*
• Page WF, Mahan CM, Kang HK, Bullman TA. (2005). Health effects in Army Gulf War veterans possibly exposed to chemical munitions destruction at Khamisiyah, Iraq. Part II. Morbidity associated with notification of potential exposure.
  Mil Med, 170:945-951.*
• Davis LE, Eisen SA, Murphy FM, Alpern R, Parks BJ, Kang HK, et al (2004). Clinical and laboratory assessment of distal peripheral nerves in Gulf War veterans and spouses.
  Neurology 2004;63:1070-1077.*
• Fiedler N, Giardino N, Natelson B, Ottenweller J, Weisel C, Lioy P et al. (2004). Responses to controlled diesel vapor exposure among chemically sensitive Gulf War Veterans.
  Psychosom Med, 66(4):588-98.*
• Gray GC, Gackstetter GD, Kang HK, Graham JT, Scott KC. After more than 10 years of Gulf War veteran medical evaluations, what have we learned? (2004).
  Am J Prev Med, 26:443-452. *
• Karlinsky JB, Blanchard M, Alpern R, Eisen SA, Kang H, Murphy FM, Reda D. (2004). Late prevalence of respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function abnormalities in Gulf War I veterans.
  Arch Intern Med, 164:2488–2491.*
• Mahan CM, Kang HK, Dalager NA, Heller JM. (2004). Anthrax vaccination and self-reported symptoms, functional status, and medical conditions in the National Health Survey of Gulf War Era Veterans and Their Families.
  Ann Epidemiol, 14:81–88. *
• Vladutiu GD, Natelson BH. (2004). Association of medically unexplained fatigue with ACE Insertion/Deletion polymorphism in Gulf War Veterans.
  Muscle and Nerve, 30: 38-43 *
• Cook DB, PR Nagelkirk, A Peckerman, A Poluri, JJ LaManca, BH Natelson. (2003). Perceived exertion in fatiguing illness part 2: Gulf Veterans with chronic fatigue syndrome.
  Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 35(4):569-574*
• Hallman WK, Kipen HM, Diefenbach M, Boyd K, Kang H, Leventhal H, Wartenberg D. (2003). Symptom patterns among Gulf War registry veterans.
  Am J Public Health, 93:624–629. *
• Kang HK, Natelson BH, Mahan CM, Lee KY, Murphy FM. (2003). Post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome-like illness among Gulf War veterans: A population based survey of 30,000 veterans.
  Am J Epidemiol, 157:141–148. *
• Nagelkirk PR, DB Cook, LaManca JJ, Sakowski T, Peckerman A, Natelson BH.(2003). Aerobic capacity of Gulf War veterans with chronic fatigue syndrome.
  Military Medicine, 168: 750-755*
• Peckerman A, K Dahl, R Chemitiganti, JJ LaManca, JE Ottenweller, BH Natelson. (2003). Effects of posttraumatic stress disorder on cardiovascular stress responses in Gulf War veterans with fatiguing illness.
  Autonomic Neurosciences, 108: 63-72*
• Young HA, Simmens SJ, Kang HK, Mahan CM, Levine PH. (2003). Factor analysis of fatiguing syndrome in Gulf War era veterans: implications for etiology and pathogenesis.
   J Occup Environ Med, 45:1268–1273. *
• Brimacombe M, Zhang Q, Lange G, Natelson B. (2002). Immunological variables mediate cognitive dysfunction in Gulf Veterans but not civilians with CFS.
  NeuroImmunoModulation, 10(2):93-100*
• Kang HK, Bullman TA, Macfarlane GJ, Gray GC. (2002). Mortality among U.S. and U.K. veterans of the Persian Gulf War: A review.
  Occup Environ Med, 59:794–799.*
• Kang HK, Mahan CM, Lee KY, Murphy FM, Simmens SJ, Young HA, Levine PH. (2002). Evidence for a deployment related Gulf War syndrome by factor analysis.
  Arch Environ Health, 57:61-68. *
• Gilhooly P, Ottenweller J, Lange G, Tiersky L, Natelson B. (2001). Chronic fatigue and sexual dysfunction in female Gulf War veterans.
  Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 27:483-487 *
• Kang HK, Bullman TA. (2001). Mortality among U.S. veterans of the Gulf War: 7-year follow-up.
  Am J Epidemiol, 154:399–405. *
• Kang HK, Magee C, Mahan C, Lee K, Murphy F, Jackson L, et al. Pregnancy outcomes among U.S. Gulf War veterans: A population-based survey of 30,000 veterans.
  Ann Epidemiol 2001;11:504–511.*
• Kipen HM. (2001). Gulf War Syndrome. Encyclopedia of Public Health (2001).
• Nelson J, Natelson B, Peckerman A, Pollet C, Lange G, Tiersky L, et al. (2001). Medical follow up of Gulf veterans with severe medically unexplained fatigue: A preliminary study.
  Military Psychology, 166:1107-1109.*
• Kang HK, Mahan CM, Lee KY, Magee CA, Murphy FM. (2000). Illnesses among U.S. veterans of Gulf War: A population-based survey of 30,000 veterans.
  J Occup Environ Med, 42:491–501. *
• Gray GC, Hawksworth AW, Smith TC, Kang HK, Knoke JD, Gackstetter, GD. (1999). Gulf War Veterans’ Health Registries. Who is most likely to seek evaluation?
  Am J Epidemiol, 148:343–349. *
• Murphy FM, Kang HK, Dalager NA, Lee KY, Allen RE, Mathers SH, et al. (1999). The health status of Gulf War veterans: Lessons learned from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Registry.
  Mil Med, 164:327–331.*
• Gray GC, Coate BD, Anderson CM, Kang HK, et al. (1996). The postwar hospitalization experience of U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
  N Engl J Med, 335:1505–1513.*
• Kang HK, Bullman TA. (1996). Mortality among U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War.
  N Engl J Med, 335:1498–1504. *

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