RE: Ship Yard Workers - Journal Publication vs. Report/Thesis Findings Issue

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Steve,

I did not know thyrotoxicosis is radiation related.  Where in the literature is this cause and effect noted?

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

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Subject: Re: Ship Yard Workers - Journal Publication vs. Report/Thesis Findings Issue
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Concerning NRI adverse effects, in the first case the Sandler, 1979 Ph.D. thesis at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on 667 children treated with NRI at a Johns Hopkins run clinic which had a RR = 8.6 for thyrotoxicosis [Graves Disease] with a p value < 0.01  . . .