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Article: Studies consistently find no link to connective tissue disease.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- August 9, 2004
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2004 AUG 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A review of epidemiologic studies reported since 1999 confirms what earlier research found: there appears to be no link between silicone breast implants and development of connective tissue disease in women with such implants.
"Numerous meta-analyses, weight-of-the-evidence, and critical reviews have summarized data from case-control and cohort studies, published through 1999, which have been conducted to evaluate the potential association between cosmetic silicone breast implants and the occurrence of well-defined connective tissue diseases, as well as a hypothesized new atypical disease, which does not fulfill ...