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Re: Cardio disease citation--as promised, was Gofman
If you are looking for a "smoking gun," I would suggest cigarette smoking. Besides lung cancer, it is closely linked to heart and cardiovascular disease.
"Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com> wrote:
At 02:40 PM 6/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
It is important to remember that death has a probability of 1.0. If heart attacks are going up, deaths from cancer, accidents, etc., are going down. If that is the case, you may want to more to Niagra to avoid cancers. This effect could prove that low levels of ionizing radiation have a hormesis effect. Of course, the devil is in the details.
I appreciate your partially tongue-in-cheek reply. Seriously, however, if there is an increase over other counties in New York State in heart disease, AND IT IS SUSTAINED (I have yet to hear that it is sustained, only oblique (non judgmental comment) references to additional coronary care units) then, perhaps there is a cause of it.
I think some people calling for citations of papers are a bit unfair. Every research effort has to start with a seminal paper, but it has to be thoroughly researched and documented.
I think Lou has ruled out my "snow shovel!
ing" cause, perhaps you're onto something that only heart disease remains after hormesis protects the residents against cancer and other forms of death.
However, I believe some effort should be spent looking for a smoking gun, but that it's imperative to understand at least pathways. For example, if the survey meter isn't showing Denver-level radiation in the homes, then what do we have to worry about?
Also, perhaps running these statistics against other states such as Colorado might be informative.
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail: crispy_bird@yahoo.com
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