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| Millennium Cohort Study Expanding To Include Spouses of Service Members | Force Health Protection and Readiness | 22 March 2010 |
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The Millennium Cohort Study, which was launched in 2001 to help address health outcomes related to Service members' deployments, will soon be increasing its enrollment to more than 200,000 participants. The next survey cycle, which begins this year, will add 50,000 new Cohort members plus 10,000 spouses of Service members to the study. |
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| Respiratory Conditions Investigated for the Deployed | US DoD Military Health System | 10 February 2010 |
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A recent study published by DoD researchers in the American Journal of Epidemiology reports that service members who deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan are at no increased risk for developing chronic respiratory conditions. |
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| Naval Health Research Center: Behavioral Science and Epidemiology | Navy Medicine Magazine | Jan - Feb 2010 |
| Study Links Deployment to Hypertension | Health.mil | 15 December 2009 |
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DoD medical researchers have found that service members who suffered multiple combat exposures during a deployment, and especially those who had witnessed death as a result of war, were much more likely to report hypertension (chronic high blood pressure) compared to those who had not seen combat. |
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| Respiratory Symptoms and Conditions Reported Among Military Personnel Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan | MHS Vital Signs | 9 December 2009 |
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A study recently published by researchers at the Naval Health Research Center addresses concerns about respiratory conditions among persons deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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| Iraq/Afghanistan deployment tied to respiratory woes | Global News | 3 December 2009 |
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U.S. military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan face an increased risk for developing respiratory symptoms, including persistent or recurring cough and shortness of breath, a large-scale military study has shown. |
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| Study Team Sets Out to Identify Health Trends in Service Members | US Department of Defense Military Health System | 26 October 2009 |
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The Department of Defense's ongoing Millennium Cohort Study of 150,000 members of the military and veterans has helped researchers learn important new information about many deployment health-related concerns, according to the leader of the study. |
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| Combat Exposure Tied to Chronic High Blood Pressure | MedPage Today | 14 September 2009 |
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U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan who go into combat are more likely to develop high blood pressure over the long term than those who serve in supporting roles, a new military study finds. |
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| Forty Percent of Military Population Uses Alternative Therapies | US Department of Defense Military Health System | 11 August 2009 |
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The Naval Health Research Center recently published an article in the Annals of Epidemiology on the use of complementary and alternative medicine in the military population. The article found that approximately forty percent of the U.S. military population uses alternative therapies. Story shared in the Health Information Operations Weekly Update Newsletter by the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine dated 21 August 2009.
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| Deployed service members have higher risks for smoking, heavy drinking, and PTSD | Federal Health Institute Newsletter | 29 May 2009 |
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A recent study on the long-term health effects of thousands of service members found that deployed service members who are exposed to combat have increased risks for smoking, heavy drinking and PTSD symptoms |
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