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- Published on: 18 June 2009Response to Chris J KalmanShow More
June 8th 2009
We are writing to respond to Dr.Kalman in regard to our article entitled “Maternal Occupational Exposure and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in Veterinary Practice”.
Regarding the risk relating to radiation, we presented data separately for those with 1-4 x-rays a week in Table 2. Readers are able to use these analyses rather than those in Table 3 if they prefer. The results for exposure...
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None declared. - Published on: 18 June 2009Response to authorsShow More
Dear Sir
I am grateful for the speedy response from Dr Shirangi and her colleagues to my original letter. I regret the delay in my further response.
Importantly, the authors justify the combination of the ‘no exposure’ and ‘one to 5 films per week’ categories (ie the elimination of an exposure category) on the identification that the crude relative risk data did not indicate any adverse outcome for t...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 January 2009Response to Chris J KalmanShow More
We are writing to respond to Dr.Kalman in regard to our recent article entitled Maternal Occupational Exposure and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in Veterinary Practice.
Dr. Kalman believes that he has picked up an anomaly in the presentation of data on radiation. We would like to reassure readers of the journal that there is no anomaly in the presentation of data and all presented results including radiation...
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None declared. - Published on: 8 January 2009Maternal Occupational Exposure and Risk of Spontaneous Abortion in Veterinary PracticeShow More
Shirangi and her colleagues set out to examine the relationship between occupational exposures and spontaneous abortion in female veterinarians. One exposure examined, is in relation to the use of x- rays, where the authors report in the abstract that veterinarians who reported performing more than 5 radiographic examinations per week had a statistically significant elevated risk of spontaneous abortion compared with th...
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