Autonomic Symptoms in Gulf War Veterans Evaluated at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center.

Conclusions: The elevated COMPASS-31 scores suggest that there may be autonomic dysfunction present in our sample of Veterans with GWI, consistent with other published reports. Additionally, we believe that the high scores on the anxiety measure may reflect assessment of physiological symptoms that are not specific to anxiety, and may reflect GWI symptoms. Objective physiological tests of the autonomic nervous system are warranted to better characterize autonomic function and the clinical relevance of COMPASS-31 in this population. PMID: 30215755 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research