[ RadSafe ] 'How Low Doses Of Radiation Can Cause Heart DiseaseAnd Stroke'

[דב בריקנר]

"Fairly easy"?????? "Once all confounding issues are accounted for"...
Indeed  it is a very complicated study  to perform. In an ecological design
you can not account for confounders and in a cohort study or even in a case
control study one can not rely on computerized registries to include even
the most basic confounders like smoking status or family history or co-
morbidity like hypertension... Actually those factors are much more
significant than low dose radiation exposure...

Dov Brickner   MD  
Beer Sheva Israel

Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of Brennan, Mike (DOH)
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:48 PM
To: Radsafe
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] 'How Low Doses Of Radiation Can Cause Heart
DiseaseAnd Stroke'

This should be fairly easy to verify by looking at long term residents
of areas with different background levels, and seeing if there is a
trend, once all confounding issues are accounted for.