It does not appear that important health data such as diet, alcohol intake or smoking were included in the dataset, only the self-reported general health question from the 2001 census.
A revealing sentence tucked away in the middle of the paper says : "The large residual variation is expected as
other known factors associated with the health outcomes are not included in the model".
Furthermore, at the end of the paper a number of very significant limitations are set out, especially the admission that this is merely an association and not evidence of causality. It is quite telling that the Food and Environment Research Agency research report on health effects of exposure to contaminants in soils does not appear in the references.
Dr. Anthony Luke
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From: Contaminated Land Management Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Howard Price
Sent: 27 March 2014 12:56
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Subject: Brownfield land and morbidity/mortality in England
Colleagues may be interested to read this:
http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=a46105
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