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Prevalence of Birth Defects Among Infants of Gulf War Veterans in Arkansas,

Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, and Iowa, 1989-1993.

Araneta, M, Schlangen, K, Edmonds L et al.

Birth Defects Research (Part A) 67:246-260 (2003),

Published 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

According to a just published study from the Naval Health Research

Center in San Diego and the Birth Defects and Pediatric Genetics

Branch of the Centers for Disease Control, the children of male Gulf

War

veterans have a higher prevalence of certain heart and kidney

defects than non-deployed veterans.  The children of female veterans

who

served in the Gulf War have more infants with a

genitourinary defect called hypospadias.  The study led by Dr. Happy

Araneta measured birth defect prevalence among infants of Gulf

War veterans in several states and selected counties Arkansas,

California and Georgia and all birth certificates from Arizona, Hawaii

and Iowa.

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