Abstract

MENENDEZ LOPEZ, José R.; INFANTE VELAZQUEZ, Mirtha; MORENO PUEBLA, Reynol Arturo  and  RODRIGUEZ PERON, José Miguel. Impoverished uranium and health. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2005, vol.34, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3046.

A wide bibliography was reviewed on the problem that the exposure of the troops from the coalition forces to the products of degradation of impoverished uranium during the Shield and Storm of the Desert maneuvers carried out in 1991 has represented for health. The elements necessary to extend the knowledge about the physicochemical properties of impoverished uranium were given. Likewise, the criteria indicating the existence of a cause-effect relation on health in the polysymptomatic and not very well defined framework of the so-called Gulf and the Balkans' syndrome were reviewed. At present, these phenomena are considered as real enigmas in the health-disease phenomenon of the veterans that participated in the actions performed in those theaters of war.

Keywords : Impoverished uranium; occupational health; Military Medicine.

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