[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl-related abortions

[Steven Dapra]

March 10

         It's probably elevated because of the 
paranoia about the alleged effects of low level exposure to rad.

Steven Dapra


At 07:35 AM 3/10/2010, Franz Schönhofer wrote:
>Björn,
>
>May I add: Why should Denmark show an elevated abortion rate? It was
>practically not affected at all by the Chernobyl fallout!!!
>
>Franz
>
>Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
>MinRat i.R.
>Habicherg. 31/7
>A-1160 Wien/Vienna
>AUSTRIA
>
>
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] Im Auftrag von Bjorn Cedervall
>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 13:02
>An: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
>Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl-related abortions
>
>
>I checked the references below (and about ten more - mainly from the same
>"Biomed and Pharmacother" - Vol. 45, 1991). First, the "Anynomous" in J.
>Nucl Medicine (April and June issues, 1987) seems to be Linda E. Ketchum -
>it would be interesting to contact her if possible (where?).
>
>What I tried to focus on in these papers is where the 100 000 - 200 000
>"extra" abortions estimate comes from (probably IAEA but I cannot find an
>exact reference).
>
>For Greece (Trichopoulos et al., 1987) an estimate indicates about 2500  and
>for Italy (Spinelli & Osborn, 1991) the number of such abortions has been
>estimated by using different models but if we give it 30 per day (my choice
>here) the bottom line would land in the order of 5000. No such effect seems
>to have been observed in Finland whereas Denmark showed a slight increase in
>some areas (can probably be challenged statistically). This far, I haven't
>seen any corresponding estimations for former Soviet Union or Central
>Europe.
>
>My personal comment only,
>
>Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers at hotmail.com

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