In one very large Danish study, autism rates rose after thimerosal was removed from vaccines.
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Like all epidemiologic studies, the Danish study is not perfect, but its strengths should also be acknowledged.
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By contrast, high doses of antioxidants such as beta carotene or vitamin E slightly boosted the death rate in trials, a giant Danish study found last year.
Red wine gained its "heart healthy" reputation after a Danish study in 2000 found red wine drinkers had half the risk of dying from heart disease as nondrinkers.
The Danish study is prospective in nature, which distinguishes it from most other studies on the health effects of cell phone use, which were case-control studies and enrolled subjects diagnosed with brain tumors and a comparison group of subjects who were free of brain tumors in order to compare reported cell phone usage in the two groups.
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The Danish researchers repeated the study in 2004, and again last year, incorporating new data each time.
Erik Born, from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, and Rune Dietz, from the Danish National Environmental Research Institute (Neri), will study the data to find out more about the animals' movements.
Second, by including the entire eligible Danish population, which is covered by a national tumor registry, the study avoids the problem of selection bias (that is, people who do not make it into your study for various reasons, including refusal).
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Weinberg also states that a feasibility study for a Bluefields-Nueva Guinea highway has been completed by the Danish development agency DANIDA, linking two towns in the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), with a further link foreseen to Monkey Point (which lies south of Bluefields, the RAAS seat).
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