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Re: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives
Dr. Surveyor,
That's it - thanks very much!
It's pretty much as I recalled, but pub'd a little earlier than I
remembered. I wonder whether the was ever a follow-up?
Regards, Jim Muckerheide
Radiation, Science, and Health
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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> From: Ivor Surveyor <isurveyor@vianet.net.au>
> Reply-To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:19:29 -0500 (CDT)
> To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Testimony of Steve Wing to US House of Representatives
>
> At 10:06 AM 7/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> Tom, Group,
>>
>> Tom is right. But there is a study of effects of in utero x-rays that were
>> NOT
>> given for medical indications. In Chicago?, routine x-rays of mothers, late
>> '40s-early '50? Only about 1000 cases? Paper late '70s or '80s? If anyone
>> knows the study, please reference it. If anyone is interested, I'll try to
>> find it in my files.
>>
>> By the way, no excess health effects reported, but not very clear
>> results/conclusions in a very large paper.
>>
>> Regards, Jim
>> muckerheide@mediaone.net
>> Radiation, Science, and Health
>
>
>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Oppenheim BE, Griem ML, and Meir P
> Effects of low dose prenatal irradiation in humans: analysis of Chicago
> lying-in data and comparison with other studies,
>
> Radiat Res 1974; 57: 508-544.
>
> I imagine this is the study of interest.
>
> Follow up (prospective) study on 1000 first born infants whose mothers
> were subjected to routine x-ray pelvimetry . the program commenced in 1948.
>
> estimated mean fetal dose is given as 700 mrad. Technical details are
> provided as an appendix.
>
> The bottom line: No conclusive evidence of a radiation effect was found.
>
> Ivor Surveyor [isurveyor@vianet.net.au]
>
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