Re: Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate

["Philippe Duport" <pduport@home.com>]

Wether or not low dose and dose rate radiation cause cancer will not be
fully resolved for some time.  However, there are heavily populated places
in the world where populations have been exposed to radiation level well
above current dose limits for radiation workers, and that for hundreds
(thousands) of generations.  If  no detrimental health effect is seen in
these populations,  is there any reason to suspect that fractions of milli
Sieverts are harmful? if so, why? and if not, why?

Info on cancer incidence and infant mortality/morbidity in Kerala, India,
where INDOOR dose rates reach about 70 mSv per year, from birth to death
(life expectancy some 75 years, not different from ours in North America)

for General population:
M. Krishnan Nair et al.  Population study in the high natural background
radiation area in Kerala,India. Radiation Research Vol 152, pp. S145-S148,
1999

for Congenital malformations

G. Jaikrishnan et al.  Genetic monitoring of the human population from
high-level natural radiation areas of Kerala on the Southwest coast of
India. I. Prevalence of congenital malformations in newborns. Radiation
Research Vol 152, pp. S149-S153, 1999

For Chromosomal aberrations in newborns

V. D. Cheryan et al.  Genetic monitoring of the human population from
high-level natural radiation areas of Kerala on the Southwest coast of
India. II. Incidence of numerical and structural chromosomal aberrations in
the lymphocytes of newborns. Radiation Research Vol 152, pp. S154-S158, 1999

Philippe Duport
pduport@home.com






----- Original Message -----
From: Norman & Karen Cohen <norco@bellatlantic.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Critics Allege Infant Mortality Rate


> Hi Lawrence,
>
> It was Salem (NJ), not Calvert Cliffs nukes I was referring to. Prevailing
winds
>
> tend to be west to east. Its my understanding that Mangano's study in this
case
> was just
> taking Salem County as a whole, tabulating the numbers of cancers, low
birth
> weight children,
> etc, and comparing the data to national averages and plotting that against
> whether or not
> the nukes were on-line that year.
>
> There might well be a way to have factored prevailing winds into the
study. But
> that was not done.
>
>
> I don't claim more from this study than it may show that something's going
on in
> Salem County.
> The next step would be to collect baby teeth and measure them for sr-90.
>
> thanks
> norm
>
> "Grimm, Lawrence" wrote:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > Does anyone have the data for the prevailing wind patterns in the
Calvert
> > Cliff area? To keep it simple let's ask for the percentage of time the
wind
> > blows to the 8 compass points (N, NE,E, etc).  I think it might be
> > instructive to the Cohen's that the term downwind can mean any direction
on
> > any given day.
> >
> > To the Cohen's:
> > Whenever I see someone claiming problems in a specific area and calling
it
> > downwind, I immediately get suspicious and search the study to see how
> > downwind is defined and if the study has accounted for wind variability.
If
> > wind variability is defined and accounted for, then I read further.  If
not,
> > into the dumper it goes!
> >
> > Remember that there are numerous standard variables that must be
accounted
> > for in any epidemiology study.  Wind variation is one variable and other
> > Radsafer's have pointed out other variables. Absolutely remember that no
> > matter if the study is pro or con from your position, be critical of its
> > design first.  Poorly designed studies are very easy to spot and are
junk
> > science at best.  Too often, they are "political" science.
> >
> > Larry Grimm
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