The Welding Information Centre has announced an important new epidemiological study.
The study has been published in the February 2006 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, an international peer reviewed journal.
This Journal, which is concerned with epidemic diseases, concludes that there is no link between welding or exposure to welding fumes and an increased risk of Parkinsons disease or any other similar movement disorder. Entitled Parkinsons Disease and Other Basal Ganglia or Movement Disorders in a Large Nationwide Cohort of Swedish Welders, it is the most comprehensive epidemiological cohort study of Parkinsons disease and other movement disorders undertaken among men employed as welders ever conducted.
The band of associates of 49,488 male welders and flame cutters and a comparison cohort of 489,572 men from the general Swedish population were assembled from the Swedish National Census Register. Information about their medical histories was obtained from public health records, including the Swedish Cause of Death Register and the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register, which contains information on all hospital admissions countywide since 1964 and nationwide since 1987.
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