An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era Veterans

McNeil, Rebecca B; Thomas, Catherine M; Coughlin, Steven S; Hauser, Elizabeth; Huang, Grant D; Goldstein, Karen M; Johnson, Marcus R; Dunn-Thomas, Tyra; Provenzale, Dawn T

doi:10.1186/1476-069X-12-4

Environmental Health

Table 2 Characteristics of participants in major studies of U.S. veterans of the first Gulf War ^a

From: An assessment of survey measures used across key epidemiologic studies of United States Gulf War I Era Veterans

		Devens Cohort Study	New Orleans	VA Registry	Nat’l Health Survey	PA & HI	DoD Registry	Iowa	Seabees	OR & WA	Air Nat’l Guard	Kansas I	Kansas II	Millennium Cohort^c	Military Health Survey	Total
Sample size		2,949^b	1,520^d	66,227	20,917	4,344	54,244	3,695	11,868	1,119	3,723	2,030	304	45,372	8,020	226,332
Deployment status	GW	2,345	1,520	66,227	11,441	1,524	46,625	1,896	3,831	1,119	1,154	1,548	304	9,248	5,699	154,481
	Non-GW				9,476	2,727	4,888	1,799	8,037		2,569	482		36,124	1, 192	67,294
Age, years	<25							1,895								1,895
	17-21			15,008								386				15,394
	22-25			14,887								426				15,313
	>25							1,800								1,800
	26-31			14,390										5,761		20,151
	>31			21,947										41,471		63,418
	26-33											528		10,118		10,646
	>34											690		35,254		35,944
	Mean	30.2	29		31		32.5		30.6	26.4	35			39.1
Date of age		1991	deploy	deploy	1991			8/1990	1990	deploy	1995	1/1991		2000
Gender	Male	2,137	1,307	59,697	16,715		47,301	3,360	11,334	962	3,202	1,766	282	35,460		183,523
	Female	208	213	6,530	4,202		6,943	335	534	157	521	264	22	9,895		29,824
Race	White	1,975	867	43,182	15,550	3,078	27,936	3,543	10,432	1,041	3,202	1,786	265	31,988		144,845
	Black	176	456	16,527	3,828		15,893		843			162	26	6,501		44,412
	Hispanic	84	182	1,752			2,712					61	15	2,319		7,125
	Other	110	15	4,766	1,539	977	7,648	152	593	78	521	41	8	4,537		20,985
Service	Active	265		42,590	8,082	2,291	44,697	1,953	10,266	772	1,680	914		21,516		135,026
	NG/Res			23,637				1,742		347		1,116				26,842
	NG	1,494			5,759						1,205			10,863		19,321
	Reserve	586			7,076	1,714	6,455		1,602		838			12,954		31,225
Branch	Army	2,345		47,850	13,238^d		43,504	2,083		526		1,238	168	20,325		131,277
	Air Force			4,148	2,693		3,634	532		67	3,723	447	28	14,945		30,217
	Marines			8,977	2,304		2,658	503		213		142	58	1,569		16,424
	Navy			5,252	2,682		2,712		11,868	313		223	49	7,986		31,085
	Other						1,682	577						547		2,806
Rank	Enlisted	982	1,398	61,797	17,553	3,581		3,298	10,244		3,202	1,705	241	326		104,327
	Officer	155	122		3,060			397	1,624			325	63			5,746
	Noncom	1,208												32,219		33,427
	Com			3,686										11,537		15,223
	Warrant			744	288									1,290		2,322
Reference		[7]	[8]	[37]	[10]	[17]	[11]	[38]	[12]	[13]	[4]	[1]	[14]	[15]	[16]

Abbreviations: Com Commissioned Officer, DoD Department of Defense, GW Gulf War, HI Hawaii, NG National Guard, Noncom Noncommissioned Officer, OR Oregon, PA Pennsylvania, Res Reserve Service, VA Department of Veterans Affairs, WA Washington.
^aSome cells may not total to the full study sample size due to rounding imprecision in published percentages, or missing data or errors in the original publication.
^bFigures presented are based on 2,345 participants of Devens Cohort Study, as reported in [7]. Figures for the full cohort of 2,949 are not available in published literature.
^cFigures presented are based on the subset of Millennium Cohort participants who served during the era of the first Gulf War. These are unpublished data that were provided to us in a personal communication by Dr. Nancy Crum-Cianflone of the Naval Health Research Center.
^dDenotes that the figure is reported variably in multiple publications, or is otherwise uncertain.

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