Gulf War and Health Volume 3: Fuels, Combustion Products, and Propellants (2005) / Chapter Skim
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277 6 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States. Morbidity (other than hypertension)
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278 GULF WAR AND HEALTH FUELS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Several studies (Huang 1986; Pollini et al. 1986, 1989; Van Peenen et al.
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 279 cerebrovascular disease. It is divided into studies of Gulf War veterans, air-pollution studies, and occupational studies.
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280 GULF WAR AND HEALTH Orleans. The studys nearly 300 subjects made up a stratified random sample of 2,949 troops from Ft.
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 281 still far from definitive. The Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer (Hoek et al.
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282 GULF WAR AND HEALTH Occupational Studies Gustavsson et al.
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 283 to decline in retirement. The cohort-mortality study found a small excess of myocardialinfarction deaths and ischemic-heart-disease deaths in bus drivers (RR 1.1, 95% CI 1.0-1.3)
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284 GULF WAR AND HEALTH negative associations observed in the majority of the studies impossible to interpret; and firefighters probably differ from people in other occupations with regard to several potentially confounding factors that may influence the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Only the Dibbs et al.
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 285 Brook RD, Franklin B, Cascio W, Hong Y, Howard G, Lipsett M, Luepker R, Mittleman M, Samet J, Smith SC Jr, Tager I
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286 GULF WAR AND HEALTH Krewski D, Burnett RT, Goldberg MS, Hoover BK, Siemiatycki J, Jerrett M, Abrahamowicz M, White WH.
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE 287 Van Peenen PF, Blanchard AG, Wolkonsky PM.
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