Mortality and postcombat disorders: U.K. veterans of the boer war and world war I

From: Military Medicine | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

MILITARY MEDICINE, 168, 5:414, 2003

This study seeks to investigate the mortality rates of U.K. servicemen with postcombat syndromes following the Boer War and World War I. Random samples of veterans awarded war pensions for either disordered action of the heart (DAH) or neurasthenia/shellshock were compared with gunshot wounded ex-servicemen as controls. The destruction of pension records has led to reliance on groups of the longest lived veterans, which diminishes their representative qualities. Study groups were matched by rank and level of disability. With the exception of DAH cases in ...

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