Table 7.
Cause-specific mortality among US, UK and Australian veterans of the 1991 Gulf War as compared with non-Gulf War veterans, mortality rate ratios with 95% confidence intervals.
| underlying cause of death | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | study | all causes | all diseases | accidents | motor vehicle accidents | all cancers | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| US veterans | Kang & Bullman, 1996 | 1.09 (1.01–1.16) | 0.88 (0.77–1.02) | 1.31 (1.14–1.49) | 0.83 (0.66–1.05) | — | — |
| Kang & Bullman 2001, male veterans | 0.95 (0.92–0.99) | 0.83 (0.78–0.89) | 1.19 (1.09–1.30) | 0.90 (0.81–1.01) | — | 0.59a (0.21–1.66) | |
| Kang & Bullman 2001, female veterans | 1.16 (0.97–1.38) | 1.02 (0.79–1.33) | 1.63 (1.09–2.45) | 1.11 (0.78–1.57) | — | — | |
| Bullman et al. 2005 | 0.97 (0.91–1.04) | 0.96 (0.86–1.07) | 1.00 (0.86–1.17) | 0.97 (0.82–1.16) | 1.94 (1.12–3.34) | — | |
| UK veterans | Macfarlane et al. 2000 | 1.05 (0.91–1.21) | 0.87 (0.67–1.11) | 1.25 (0.9–1.72) | 1.11 (0.73–1.67) | — | — |
| Defence Analytical Services Agency 2005 | 0.98 (0.88–1.08) | 0.86 (0.74–1.00) | 1.18 (0.92–1.52) | 0.95 (0.76–1.19) | 0.94 (0.50–1.76) | — | |
| Australia | Sim et al. 2003 | 1.4 (0.8–2.7) | 2.2 (0.8–5.6) | — | — | — | — |
a
Based on the entire Gulf War veterans and a sample of non-Gulf War veterans, adjusted for gender.