The Risk of Birth Defects among Children of Persian Gulf War Veterans
Open Access
- 5 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 336 (23), 1650-1656
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199706053362306
Abstract
There has been suspicion that service in the Persian Gulf War affected the health of veterans adversely, and there have been claims of an increased rate of birth defects among the children of those veterans.Keywords
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