Data collected from the Ft. Devens Cohort at multiple timepoints over the past 30 years was analyzed, looking for associations between health symptoms and neurotoxicant exposures. This research identified multiple exposures that are associated with specific health symptoms.
The Gulf War research team at VA Boston Healthcare System examined the health trajectories of veterans of the Ft. Devens Cohort over the past 25+ years. Tracking health symptoms from the time they returned from deployment, to date, revealed significant increase in 12 different symptoms (since prior surveys in 1997-1998).
Longitudinal Assessment of Health Symptoms in Relation to Neurotoxicant Exposures in 1991 Gulf War Veterans was published in the The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This study, done in collaboration by researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, and Boston University’s schools of Public Health, and Medicine. […]