[ RadSafe ] Scientists discover possible radiation and heartdisease link

[John Jacobus]

Grant,
  By "lower socio-economic standing" do you mean unable to afford health care?  Hard-drinking? Smoking?
   
  One would think that there factors are controlled for, but maybe not by rigorous multi-regression analyzes.

"NIXON, Grant" <Grant.NIXON at mdsinc.com> wrote:
  I would suspect that, on average, the radiation workers who received the
highest doses were from a lower socio-economic standing (e.g., the
decontamination workers). Socio-economics (read lifestyle) is a
well-established indicator of one's propensity for heart disease and
shorter lifespan and I would wager that this is likely THE causal factor
behind the finding rather that dose level which is likely only a symptom
of the causal factor.

Grant

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Opposite - less CV mortality with more radiation - must be true in the
NShipyardWS 
with just 0.76 total mortality rate in those with > extra 0.5 rem vs
workers otherwise identical,
as published by Cameron.

Howard Long

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heart disease link

Fred

There is a link between radiation and cardiovascular disease. See Darby
et 
al (BMJ Vol. 326, pp256-257, 2003) and our poster at the IRPA-11
meeting.

John
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:53 AM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Scientists discover possible radiation and heart 
disease link


> Guardian reports
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/04/nuclear.nuclearpower
>
> A study of nearly 65,000 nuclear industry workers over more than 60
years
> has found a possible link between high radiation exposure and heart 
> disease.
>
>
> 


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