1: J Health Psychol. 2008 May;13(4):529- 36.
 

Chronic fatigue syndrome in male gulf war veterans and civilians: a further test of the single syndrome hypothesis.

Ciccone DS, Weissman L, Natelson BH.

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, USA. donald.ciccone@ va.gov.

Different modes of fatigue onset in male Gulf War veterans versus male civilians raise the possibility that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) may not be a single disease entity. We addressed this issue by comparing 45 male veterans with CFS to 84 male civilians who satisfied identical case criteria. All were evaluated for fibromyalgia (FM), multiple chemical sensitivity and psychiatric comorbidity. CFS was more likely to present in a sudden flu-like manner in civilians than veterans (p < .01) and comorbid FM was more prevalent in civilians (p < .01). These findings question the assumption that all patients with CFS suffer from the same underlying disorder.

PMID: 18420761 [PubMed - in process]
Incidence of GW cancers - off the radar
 
How do you report a incidence of cancers in Gulf War vets
who are not in the VA system. The answer is you don't.
 
In 2005 a mother of a Gulf War vet sent me a packet of
information about her son who had passed away in a
civilian hospital in DC. He had developed a brain tumor
and wrote a book for his son just before he passed away.
It was "Joe Waters" and the book was called "The Waters
 
I forwarded this information to VA about his tumor and that
he had died outside of VA care. They didn't bother to look
into this, and it was left on the table.
 
Not only does it show that VA doesn't care about Gulf War
vets but will go as far as use technicalities to make sure
that medical information collected about us is rigged. That
Gulf War vets are not dying of cancer at a higher rate than
the general public.
 
For instance, VA doesn't report acute conditions in Gulf War
vets because they only report chronic conditions. Hyperplasia
is the thickening of a tissue before metaplasia, a wild uncontrolled
explosion of cell growth. Many organs in Gulf War vets demonstrate
varying hyperplasia of the tissues. I for one have hyperplasia of
the kidneys and adrenal glands. What is VA favorite saying for
hyperplasia of soft tissues, it must be "Congenital" . As are Cyst
and other features that will be ignored until they become chronic.
You must have a genetic problem in your family. 
 
But, if your not in VA care or any care how will you know any of
this is taking place until way after the fact. When your feeling
pain in cancer circles its too late. There is a need for baseline
that reports acute conditions before they become chronic.
 
Gulf War vets in general need a mass screening system before
the 20th anniversary of the war. To get a current picture of our
health before conditions become chronic. That means those
out side of VA care as well.
 
This is but one of many things I have been working on for some
time now. Its just that we need a launch vehicle to kick this all
off. Hopefully that suggestion can be made to the new Gulf War
Advisory Committee sometime this year.
 
Until then more veterans will slip through the VA radar and
there health ( or deaths ) will continue to go unreported. In the
case of Joe Waters he left a lasting mark with his family and
his neighbors that wont be forgotten even if VA doesn't care.
 
We have got to do better at staying on top of this and the other
issues of both Gulf War and OIF veterans. The clock is ticking
and will you feel that next bad pain you could be facing something
alone that will change your life forever.
 
                                                                Sincerely
                                                                Kirt P. Love
                                                                Director, DSBR

4-21-08

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