Significant increase in trisomy 21 in Berlin nine months after the Chernobyl reactor accident: temporal correlation or causal relation?

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OBJECTIVE: To assess whether the increased prevalence of trisomy 21 in West Berlin in January 1987 might have been causally related to exposure to ionising radiation as a result of the Chernobyl reactor accident or was merely a chance event. DESIGN: Analysis of monthly prevalence of trisomy 21 in West Berlin from January 1980 to December 1989. SETTING: Confines of West Berlin. RESULTS: Owing to the former...

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