Table 2.
Characteristics of participants in major studies of U.S. veterans of the first Gulf Wara
| 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 Cohortc | Military Health Survey | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sample size |
|
2,949b |
1,520d |
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 |
13,238d |
|
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.