@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence of Environmental and Other Military Exposure Concerns in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2012",
author="Quigley, Karen S. and McAndrew, Lisa M. and Almeida, Liliana and Dʼandrea, Elizabeth A. and Engel, Charles C. and Hamtil, Heather and Ackerman, Adam J.",
volume="54",
number="6",
pages="659-664",
abstract="OBJECTIVE:: This study examined the prevalence of self-reported exposures in returning Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans and the relationship of exposure reports to current physical symptoms. METHODS:: Using self-reports obtained immediately after return from deployment in a cohort of 760 enlisted Army reserve component military personnel, we assessed prevalence rates of environmental and other exposures and the association of these exposures to severity of physical symptoms. RESULTS:: Reporting of environmental exposures was relatively low in veterans of OEF/OIF, but reporting more environmental and other exposures, in particular screening positive for a traumatic brain injury, was related to greater physical symptom severity immediately after deployment. CONCLUSIONS:: Non-treatment-seeking, enlisted Army reserve component personnel reported relatively few exposures immediately after return from deployment; however, more exposures was modestly associated with greater severity of physical symptoms when controlling for predeployment symptoms, gender, and other deployment-related exposures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182570506",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182570506"
}