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It is estimated that women make up about 14 percent of the armed services and of the roughly 2.2 million troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 255,000 have been women. They are at-risk for a variety of serious and intriguing mental and physical conditions that are not well understood.

The 2011 SWHR X-Conference will highlight the sex-differences in a number of conditions that affect female veterans who have been exposed to military combat. Topics will include Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), Depression, the Musculoskeletal System, Urogenital Issues, and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The nature of the conference will be translational and will feature talks from basic scientists, as well as military health professionals. Panelists will discuss the biological basis for the specific sex-based differences, and then describe the clinical features of these conditions to a diverse audience of scientists, policy makers, practitioners from both within and outside the Veterans Administration, and the media.

Conference highlights include:

• the state of the art on military combat exposure for female veterans,
• the available data on the biological and clinical features of selected health problems,
• a dialogue for designing basic and clinical research studies to address the above challenges.

 

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