Table 6.

Descriptions of published Gulf War veteran mortality studies during the post-war period.

authors and year	study design and country	description
Kang & Bullman 1996	Cohort, United States	a study of post-war mortality through 30 September 1993 among 695 516 Gulf veterans and 746 291 non-Gulf War veterans. 1765 deaths among the Gulf and 1729 deaths among non-Gulf veterans were compared and analysed.
Macfarlane et al. 2000	Cohort, United Kingdom	a study of post-war mortality from 1 April 1991 to 31 March 1999 among 53 462 Gulf veterans and an equal number of non-Gulf veterans. 395 deaths among the Gulf and 378 among the era cohort were compared and analysed.
Kang & Bullman 2001	Cohort, United States	further update of the US Gulf veteran mortality study through December 1997. A total of 10 424 deaths in 6.5 year post-war period were analysed by their deployment status.
Sim et al. 2003	Cohort, Australia	a study of post-war mortality from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 2000 among 1833 Gulf veterans and 2848 non-Gulf veterans. 20 deaths among the Gulf and 23 deaths among non-Gulf were studied.
Defence Analytical Services Agency 2005	Cohort, United Kingdom	an extension of Macfarlane et al. study through 30 June 2005. 720 deaths among Gulf and 753 deaths among era veterans were studied.