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Mortality in British military participants in human experimental research into chemical warfare agents at Porton Down: cohort study
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Objective: To investigate any long term effects on mortality in participants in experimental research related to chemical warfare agents from 1941 to 1989. Design: historical cohort study. Data sources: Archive of UK government research facility at Porton Down, UK military personnel records, and national death and cancer records. Participants: 18276 male members of the UK armed forces who had spent one or more short periods (median 4 days between first and last test) at Porton Down and a comp...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Journal:
- BMJ (British Medical Journal) Journal website
- Volume:
- 338
- Article number:
- b613
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-01
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1756-1833
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- English
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- ora:2735
- Deposit date:
- 2009-03-26
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- Venables et al
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- 2009
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- Citation: Venables, K. M. et al. (2009). 'Mortality in British military participants in human experimental research into chemical warfare agents at Porton Down: cohort study', BMJ, 338:b613. [Available at http://www.bmj.com/]. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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