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Occup Environ Med 2004;61:786-789 doi:10.1136/oem.2004.012906
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Learning difficulties in children born to male UK nuclear industry employees; analysis from the nuclear industry family study

  1. A Burt1,
  2. N Maconochie2,
  3. P Doyle2,
  4. E Roman3
  1. 1National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health, 27 Sussex Place, London NW1 4RG, UK
  2. 2Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
  3. 3LRF Epidemiology and Genetics Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Miss A Burt
 National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health, 27 Sussex Place, London NW1 4RG, UK; aburtrcog.org.uk
  • Accepted 31 January 2004

Abstract

There has been much debate about paternal pre-conceptual exposure to low level ionising radiation and possible increased risk of ill health among the children subsequently conceived. The prevalence of reported learning difficulties was examined in over 16 000 children born to UK nuclear industry workers, using fathers’ information on exposure from the workers’ individual employment and dosimetry records. There was no evidence that paternal exposure to low level ionising radiation at work influences the prevalence of learning difficulties in otherwise healthy children conceived after exposure.

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