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The Health of Former Prisoners of War Results from the Medical Examination Survey of Former POWs of World War II and the Korean Conflict (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 12-16

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... since shortly after World War II (WW II)
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... ASSEMBLY OF STUDY ROSTERS Because this examination study followed up the MFUA cohort as assembled earlier, it is useful to review briefly the constitution of that cohort both cases and controls. As originally constructed, the rosters of World War II ex-POWs and controls were expressly limited to white Army males, by far the largest demographically homogeneous segment of military personnel.
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... Although the current survey continues the follow-up of a sample of POWs and controls originally assembled some 35 years ago, it differs from Beebe's morbidity follow-up in its inclusion of the malnourished European POWs. Thus, the survey reports data from seven study groups, shown below with the abbreviated titles that will be used in this report: PWP (Prisoners of War, Pacific theater, WW II)
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... 1975. Follow-up studies of World War II and Korean war prisoners: II.
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... 1954. A Follow-up Study of World War II Prisoners of War.
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