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Re: Respectful Offers & Responses
You will have to explain the underlying mechanisms to
me. I can understand the associated risks from high
dose teletherapy, but is there a low dose, dose risk?
What level of doses are you talking about?
--- John Johnson <idias@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> John, Gary and other Radsafers
>
> It has been recognized for some years that radiation
> can result in cardiovascular diseases, and since
> radon will result in elevated doses to the cells at
> risk, we think it will also. The abstract of our
> presentation at the CRPA AM later this month is
> "imported" below.
> ******
>
> Can Radon Accelerate Cardiovascular Diseases among
> Workers
> and Exposed Population?
> J. R. Johnson1), A. Trivedi 2) and P. Duport
> 3)
> 1) IDIAS, Vancouver, British Columbia;
> Canada
> 2) Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch,
> AECL, Chalk River, Canada
> 3) International Centre for Low Dose Radiation
> Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
> Canada
>
> Cardiovascular diseases are reported as the cause
> of morbidity and mortality among those
> exposed to (high) therapeutic doses of radiation,
> A-bomb explosions, accidental
> (Chernobyl liquidators) and occupational levels of
> radiation. Radiation can be considered
> as one of many risk factors for cardiovascular
> diseases. As such, it may be necessary to
> reduce not only other risk factors as far as
> possible, but also to minimize exposures to
> radiation to further reduce the burden of
> cardiovascular diseases in the population. This
> presentation will review relevant information on
> radiation-induced cardiovascular diseases
> including that from radon in uranium miners and in
> Newfoundland's fluorspar miners.
> Although standardized mortality ratio (SMR) values
> for cardiovascular diseases are
> consistently less than one in uranium miner
> cohorts, a trend for increased cardiovascular
> risk with increasing exposures was observed in the
> Newfoundland fluorspar miner cohort.
> We have calculated the doses to blood and coronary
> artery wall from radon and progeny,
> and have concluded radon exposure may indeed
> increase the incidence of cardiovascular
> diseases and that a thorough investigation of that
> risk is justified, even at environmental
> and occupational levels.
>
> ****
>
> John
> _______________________
> John R Johnson, PhD
> idias@interchange.ubc.ca
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Wong
> To: garyi@trinityphysics.com ;
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 8:28 AM
> Subject: Respectful Offers & Responses
>
>
> Gary,
>
> I apologize for the large font. I am retired
> and nearly blind.
>
> Thank-you to everyone who answered my request
> regarding information
> about the health risks of radon. Am I correct
> in understanding that
> radon exposure may also be related to heart
> disease?
>
> REGARDING THE REWARD OFFER -
>
> I responded regarding the reward offer because
> I never saw such a
> clear cut breach of an offer. Dr. Cohen made
> an offer that if someone
> published a suggested cause, they would be
> paid. My post was not
> related to science, but addressed a just
> outcome. It was in response
> to an obvious breach of contract. I would
> respectfully ask Dr. Cohen
> not to make future offers like this. If he did
> not make offers like
> this, these postings would never had been made
> regarding this topic.
>
>
>
> ---- Begin Original Message ----
>
> From: garyi@trinityphysics.com
> Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:16:01 -0500
> To: "John Wong" <Wong@attorney.zzn.com>,
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Re: Offers and Answers
>
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