Effect of low doses of ionising radiation in infancy on cognitive function in adulthood: Swedish population based cohort study.

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Published in BMJ on January 03, 2004

Authors

Per Hall1, Hans-Olov Adami, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Nancy L Pedersen, Pagona Lagiou, Anders Ekbom, Martin Ingvar, Marie Lundell, Fredrik Granath

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, PO Box 281, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. Per.Hall@mep.ki.se

Associated clinical trials:

Long Term Neurocognitive Effects of Low-dose Radiation in the Brain: Study of 150 Patients in the French Hemangioma Cohort (CogRad) | NCT01960751

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