[ RadSafe ] Re: radsafe Digest, Vol 120, Issue 4

[John Jacobus]

I think it is important to note that increases in
cardiac care has also followed the increase of the
number of Walmarts in the U.S.

--- Tony Harrison <laharris at smtpgate.dphe.state.co.us>
wrote:

> It's more interesting than that, depending on where
> you get your
> figures.  According to the National Institutes of
> Health Morbidity and
> Mortality 2007 Chart Book on Cardiovascular, Lung
> and Blood Diseases,
> case fatality rates for myocardial infarct have
> declined since 1970, but
> hospitalization rates increased from 1965 to 1986
> and have been
> relatively flat since.  One could make the case that
> fallout lead to
> increased rates of heart disease but improvements in
> care (including in
> imaging) have more than offset that increase.  To
> mix a metaphor, the
> deeper you dig, the harder it is to separate the
> wheat from the chaff.
> 
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:44:46 -0500
> From: "stewart farber" <radproject at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] New Mexico Testing for DU
> -meaningless
> 	associations
> To: <bobcherry at satx.rr.com>, "Roger Helbig"
> <rhelbig at california.com>,
> 	<radsafe at radlab.nl>
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For those that enjoy meaningless associations
> [either positive or
> negative] 
> with increased radiation exposure consider the
> following.
> 
> It is interesting to look at the increased rates of
> nuclear bomb test 
> fallout during the peak days of atmospheric testing
> [which ended in
> 1963 for 
> the US and Soviets with the open air test ban
> treaty] and the fallout 
> occuring through the late 1970s as the atmospheric
> inventory of test
> fallout 
> came to earth.  This total open air bomb test
> deposition and radiation
> 
> exposure to the entire Northern hemisphere dwarfed
> by countless orders
> of 
> magnitude anything from DU. Of interest,  you will
> see that rates of
> death 
> from heart disease in the US declined steadily and
> significantly
> throughout 
> the 70's and into the 80's with increased fallout
> radiation doses to
> our 
> entire population.
> 
> The negative association of fallout with decreasing
> heart disease rates
> and 
> heart related deaths is just an interesting -----and
> meaningless,
> fact.
> 
> It has been said that "There are three types of lies
> - lies, damn lies,
> and 
> statistics." - This quote is variously attributed to
> Benjamin Disraeli
> [most 
> likely source], Mark Twain and many other dead
> people. Whoever said it,
> this 
> is a very relevant quote for HPs.
> 
> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
> 
> Farber Medical Solutions, LLC
> Linac/Medical & Rad Instrumentation Brokerage
> 1285 Wood Ave.
> Bridgeport, CT 06604
> [203] 441-8433 [Office]
> [203] 367-0791 [Fax]
> email: radproject at sbcglobal.net 
> website: http://www.farber-medical.com 
> 
> 

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"If you guard your toothbrushes and diamonds with equal zeal, you'll probably lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds."
- Former national security advised McGeorge Bundy
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


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