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International Journal of Epidemiology 2000;29:596-599
© International Epidemiological Association 2000

Letters to the Editor

European stillbirth proportion and Chernobyl

Maria Blettner

Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany.

Sir—Scherb et al.1 reported results of a statistical analysis on still birth proportions in three European regions for the years 1980–1992 and explore whether the decreasing time trend in these proportions was distorted during or after the Chernobyl accident.

I have serious reservations about the scientific validity of the paper.

First, both the introduction and the discussion include much material that is not pertinent to the investigation that leads to a confused discussion. The major objective of the authors was to verify their hypothesis that the radiation exposure in Germany due to the Chernobyl accident led to an increase in stillbirth proportion. Using data from other ‘Western’ or ‘Central’ (for the very specific definition of ‘Western’ and ‘Central’ see Scherb et al.) European countries their hypothesis could not be confirmed. Additionally, in Table 7 ‘results' and ‘conclusions' are listed that do not emerge from the analysis but are cited . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Hagen Scherb, Eveline Weigelt and Irene Brüske-Hohlfeld

Alfred Körblein


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