Table 3.
Diagnoses in 1000 Gulf war veterans, by ICD-10 chapter. Values are numbers (percentages) of patients
| Chapter title (codes) | Any condition (n=1000) | Main condition (n=991) | Secondary condition (n=319) | Onset
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| Before war (n=121) | During war (n=113) | After war (n=903) | Not determined (n=91) | ||||
| 1—Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) | 31 (3) | 18 (2) | 13 (4) | 0 | 1 (1) | 29 (3) | 1 (1) |
| 2—Neoplasms (C00-D48) | 41 (4) | 26 (3) | 16 (5) | 3 (2) | 3 (3) | 29 (3) | 6 (7) |
| 3—Diseases of the blood and the blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-89) | 13 (1) | 9 (1) | 4 (1) | 0 | 1 (1) | 12 (1) | 0 |
| 4—Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-90) | 61 (6) | 32 (3) | 33 (10) | 5 (4) | 0 | 46 (5) | 10 (11) |
| 5—Mental and behavioural disorders (excluding psychiatric disorders) (F00-19, F44-99) | 178 (18) | 157 (16) | 26 (8) | 7 (6) | 12 (11) | 158 (17) | 3 (3) |
| 6—Diseases of the nervous system (G00-99) | 104 (10) | 89 (9) | 16 (5) | 4 (3) | 6 (5) | 92 (10) | 3 (3) |
| 7—Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-59) | 10 (1) | 8 (1) | 2 (1) | 0 | 1 (1) | 8 (1) | 1 (1) |
| 8—Diseases of the ear and the mastoid process (H60-95) | 18 (2) | 9 (1) | 9 (3) | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | 12 (1) | 2 (2) |
| 9—Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-99) | 43 (4) | 22 (2) | 23 (7) | 4 (3) | 1 (1) | 39 (4) | 0 |
| 10—Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-99) | 155 (16) | 126 (13) | 33 (10) | 19 (16) | 28 (25) | 112 (12) | 1 (1) |
| 11—Diseases of the digestive system (K00-93) | 137 (14) | 92 (9) | 48 (15) | 10 (8) | 11 (10) | 115 (13) | 2 (2) |
| 12—Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-99) | 86 (9) | 65 (7) | 21 (7) | 7 (6) | 9 (8) | 68 (8) | 2 (2) |
| 13—Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-99) | 182 (18) | 121 (12) | 68 (21) | 17 (14) | 6 (5) | 160 (18) | 7 (8) |
| 14—Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-99) | 55 (6) | 34 (3) | 21 (7) | 5 (4) | 4 (4) | 44 (5) | 2 (2) |
| 15—Pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium (O00-99) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 |
| 16—Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-96) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 |
| 18—Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-99): | 387 (39) | 271 (27) | 159 (50) | 6 (5) | 24 (21) | 364 (40) | 8 (9) |
| No diagnosis in any other chapter | 90 (9) | 90 (9) | 40 (13) | 2 (2) | 8 (7) | 81 (9) | 2 (2) |
| 19 and 20—Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes and external causes of morbidity and mortality (S00-Y98) | 18 (2) | 9 (1) | 9 (3) | 2 (2) | 11 (10) | 6 (1) | 0 |
| 21—Factors influencing health status and contact with health services (Z00-99): | 156 (16) | 112 (11) | 44 (14) | 32 (26) | 0 | 75 (8) | 54 (59) |
| No diagnosis in any other chapter | 53 (5) | 48 (5) | 2 (1) | 2 (2) | 0 | 24 (3) | 27 (30) |
Some patients had several diagnoses within the same ICD-10 chapter.