Blood Biomarkers of Chronic Inflammation in Gulf War Illness

Gerhard J. Johnson; Billie C. S. Slater; Linda A. Leis; Thomas S. Rector; Ronald R. Bach

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157855

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Blood Biomarkers of Chronic Inflammation in Gulf War Illness

Gerhard J. Johnson ,

* E-mail: gerhard.johnson@va.gov

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55417, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455, United States of America
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Billie C. S. Slater,

Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55417, United States of America
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Linda A. Leis,

Affiliation Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55417, United States of America
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Thomas S. Rector,

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55417, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455, United States of America
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Ronald R. Bach

Affiliations Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55417, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455, United States of America
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Blood Biomarkers of Chronic Inflammation in Gulf War Illness

Gerhard J. Johnson,
Billie C. S. Slater,
Linda A. Leis,
Thomas S. Rector,
Ronald R. Bach

Published: June 28, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157855

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blood biomarkers in Gulf War Illness

Posted by scoughlin on 11 Jul 2016 at 20:37 GMT

This is an important and interesting study which should be replicated in other samples of veterans who were deployed to the Persian Gulf, including those with and without Gulf War Illness defined using symptom-based criteria. It will be important to include adequate numbers of Gulf War women veterans in future validation studies.

No competing interests declared.

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