According to the lead author, Dr. Paul Ridker of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, the pharmaceutical company had no input in the study's design and didn't see the final data analysis until the study was submitted for publication.

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The present phase of the project is to present final results of the study, which ends in December 2012.

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The EEF study is the latest in a number of surveys showing how final salary pension schemes are gradually being phased out.

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