Persian Gulf Syndrome
"Persian Gulf Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Unexplained symptoms reported by veterans of the Persian Gulf War with Iraq in 1991. The symptoms reported include fatigue, skin rash, muscle and joint pain, headaches, loss of memory, shortness of breath, gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms, and extreme sensitivity to commonly occurring chemicals. (Nature 1994 May 5;369(6475):8)
| Descriptor ID |
D018923
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C24.653
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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