Figure 1From: A retrospective cohort study of U.S. service members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq: is physical health worsening over time? Physical Component Summary (PCS) scores. Comparison of PCS scores obtained in our clinical (OEF/OIF Clinical) veterans with those from our military community sample (OEF/OIF Community). For the community sample, ‘0 yr’ represents the mean PCS score obtained immediately post-deployment. Note that higher PCS scores reflect better physical health, and the dashed line represents the U.S. general population average.Back to article page