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Traumatic Brain Injuries Linked to Long-Term Health Issues for Iraq Vets
Date:12/4/2008

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The committee put forth a number of recommendations.

"Three of the recommendations are really directed towards the DOD and the VA about how to keep track of this stuff so people in the future can put registries together," Rutherford said. "Once you know that, you can start answering questions, are five of these five times as bad as one, what's the long-term risk of any bad outcome."

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View the full report at the U.S. National Academies of Science.



SOURCES: George W. Rutherford, M.D., professor, epidemiology and preventive medicine, and vice chair, department of epidemiology and biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Keith A. Young, Ph.D., vice chair, research, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, and Neuroimaging and Genetics Core Leader, VA Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans; Gulf War and Health Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of TBI


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