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To the Editor: As coordinators of the national study of reproduction and children's health among Gulf War veterans in the United Kingdom, we were interested in the report by Cowan et al. (June 5 issue)¹ on birth defects in similarly deployed U.S. service personnel. The results of this well conducted and clearly presented study are largely negative, but as the authors discuss, there are some limitations of the study design. Since the study included only live births, the true risk of congenital anomalies could not be assessed. Indeed, the fact that data on fetal death and termination of pregnancy because . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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