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Article: New Study Finds No Association Between Welding and Parkinson's Disease; First Epi-Cohort Study to Focus on Welders Confirms Welders Not at Increased Risk of Neurodegenerative Disorders.
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- May 12, 2005
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WASHINGTON -- The Welding Information Center announced today that an important new epidemiological study published in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concludes that there is no link between welding or exposure to welding fumes and an increased risk of Parkinson's disease or any other similar neurodegenerative disorder. Entitled "A Cohort Study of Parkinson's Disease and Other Neurodegenerative Disorders in Danish Welders," it is the first epidemiological cohort study of Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders undertaken among men employed as welders.
Dr. Mark Roberts, Fellow and Board Member of the ...