[ RadSafe ] Doyle and Ryan Gulf war reproductive health paper

[Steven Dapra]

Feb. 2, 2007

	Yesterday I asked James Salsman for a citation to a paper by Doyle and 
Ryan.  I located it by doing a web search.  It is "Reproductive health of 
Gulf War veterans," by Patricia Doyle, Noreen Maconochie, and Margaret 
Ryan; in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B;  361, 571-584; 
2006.  PD and NN are with the Department of Epidemiology and Population 
Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  MR is with the US 
Department of Defense Center for Deployment Health Research, in San Diego.

	The paper is available online at 
<www.bovik.org/du/DoyleRyan/2006.pdf>.  It is 14 pages long with 
approximately 50 references.

	According to an un-titled abstract, "In this review we summarize the 
scientific literature on reproductive health following deployment to the 
first Gulf war by armed service personnel.  All the studies examined had 
methodological limitations, making interpretation difficult.  Nonetheless 
we conclude that for male veterans there is no strong or consistent 
evidence to date for an effect of service in the first Gulf war on the risk 
of major, clearly defined, birth defects or stillbirth in offspring 
conceived after deployment."  A similar qualification applies to female 
veterans.  I have only read the abstract, not the paper.

Steven Dapra
sjd at swcp.com