Re: Aside from the reward issue...

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

The problem is that there are many causes for heart

disease, e.g., smoking, lack of exercise, cholesterol,

family history, etc.  I doubt background radiation or

radon is seriously considered one of them.



See

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2007



--- BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:

> I finally read Puskin's response in the HP Journal,

> and I found it quite 

> interesting.  I do not want to weigh in on the

> reward issue, but I think it 

> would be informative to also look at deaths due to

> heart disease in the 

> counties included in the study.  I only suggest

> this, because it is one more 

> data point (or scatter plot) that could inform the

> argument with respect to 

> the hypothesis that increased radon levels are

> positively associated with 

> lower smoking rates.  It seems it would be even more

> valuable than examing 

> the rate other cancers, since there is at least a

> theoretical mechanism in 

> place for radon to affect non-respiratory cancers,

> but not for heart disease.

> 

> Barbara

> 





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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