Cardiovascular Stress Responses and Their Relation to Symptoms in Gulf War Veterans With Fatiguing Illness
Arnold Peckerman, PhD,
John J. LaManca, PhD,
Sharon L. Smith, BA,
Andre Taylor, MD,
Lana Tiersky, PhD,
Claudia Pollet, MD,
Leo R. Korn, PhD,
Barry E. Hurwitz, PhD,
John E. Ottenweller, PhD and
Benjamin H. Natelson, MD
From the Center for Environmental Hazards Research (A.P., J.J.L., S.L.S., A.T., L.T., C.P., L.R.K., J.E.O., B.H.N.), VA Medical Center, East Orange, NJ; Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (A.P.), Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ; and Department of Psychology (B.H.), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.

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Fig. 1. Partial regression relationships between the mean speech-arithmetic changes in MAP, , and TPR and the AD ACL energy scores in the CF and control (CON) groups. Plotted values are residuals computed by partialing out variance shared with all other predictors (see text).
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Fig. 2. Relationship between the mean speech-arithmetic changes in MAP and the two measures of functional status in GVs with CF. A score on the Karnofsky scale signifies the percentage of retained functionality, with a lower number indicating a greater degree of disability.
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