Jun Sun, M Nedim Ince, Clara Abraham, Terrence Barrett, Lisa A Brenner, Yingzi Cong, Reza Dashti, Pradeep K Dudeja, David Elliott, Thomas S Griffith, Peter S Heeger, Andrew Hoisington, Kaikobad Irani, Tae Kon Kim, Neeraj Kapur, Joseph Leventhal, Mansour Mohamadzadeh, Ece Mutlu, Rodney Newberry, Jonathan U Peled, Israel Rubinstein, Salyka Sengsayadeth, Chen Sabrina Tan, Xiao-Di Tan, Eric Tkaczyk, Jason Wertheim, Zheng Jenny Zhang
The present report summarizes the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) field-based meeting titled "Modulating microbiome-immune axis in the deployment-related chronic diseases of Veterans." Our Veteran patient population experiences a high incidence of service-related chronic physical and mental health problems, such as infection, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), various forms of hematological and non-hematological malignancies, neurologic conditions, end-stage organ failure, requiring transplantation, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
December 2023: Gut Microbes