Journal article
Infective cause of childhood leukaemia and wartime population mixing in Orkney and Shetland, UK.
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In Orkney and Shetland (the UK's northernmost islands), during World War II, local people were outnumbered by servicemen stationed there in case of a northern invasion. Such rural-urban population mixing promotes contact between susceptible and infected individuals. We compared childhood leukaemia mortality in wartime and postwar cohorts of Orkney and Shetland children. Childhood leukaemia increased 3.6-fold, (p=0.001) in the wartime, but not in the postwar, cohort compared with national Scot...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Lancet
- Volume:
- 357
- Issue:
- 9259
- Pages:
- 858
- Publication date:
- 2001-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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113241
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:113241
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uuid:36ad10cc-25e5-4a22-9f5d-bf8b00b1d405
- Local pid:
- pubs:113241
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2001
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