[ RadSafe ] U.S. Nuclear Power Industry Workers Study - Table 2

[John Jacobus]

I have an article that discusses this:
Baillargeon, J, "Characteristics of the healthy worker
effect," Occupational Medicine,16(2):259-366 (2001)

If you want a copy, let me know and I can send it as a
PDF file.

--- John_Sukosky at dom.com wrote:
> Below, I've reproduced Table 2 from the "Analysis of
> the
> Mortality Experience amongst U.S. Nuclear Power
> Industry
> Workers after Chronic Low-Dose Exposure to Ionizing
> Radiation".
> (Howe, et al., 2004)
> 
> Based on these results, the authors stated that:
> "...The cohort
> displays a very substantial  healthy worker effect,
> i.e.,
> considerably lower cancer and noncancer mortality
> than the
> general population...".
> 
> Does anyone know why a comparison cannot be made to
> non-nuclear
> power plant workers employed during the same period
> in order to
> account for this "very substantial healthy worker
> effect"?
> 
> 
> John M. Sukosky, CHP
> Dominion
> Surry Power Station
> (757)-365-2594 (Tieline: 8-798-2594)
> 
> 
> TABLE 2
> U.S. Nuclear Power Industry Workers Study (Howe et
> al., 2004):
> Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) by Cause of
> Death, 1979–1997
> 
> Cause                            Observed
> Expected(a) SMR    95%CI
> All causes                        1,190    2922.4   
> 0.41  0.38, 0.43
>   All solid cancers                 368     564.3   
> 0.65  0.59, 0.72
>     Stomach cancer                   16      19.7   
> 0.81  0.47, 1.32
>     Colon cancer                     36      47.8   
> 0.75  0.53, 1.04
>     Pancreatic cancer                18      29.0   
> 0.62  0.37, 0.98
>     Lung cancer                     125     210.4   
> 0.59  0.49, 0.71
>     Prostatic cancer                 14      23.2   
> 0.60  0.33, 1.01
>     Kidney cancer                    14      17.7   
> 0.79  0.43, 1.32
>     Brain and other CNS(b)cancer     23      27.0   
> 0.85  0.54, 1.28
> All lymphopoietic cancer             49      75.7   
> 0.65  0.48, 0.86
>     Multiple myeloma                  6       9.5   
> 0.63  0.23, 1.37
>     Leukemia                         29      27.2   
> 1.07  0.71, 1.53
>     All noncancers                  773    2282.3   
> 0.34  0.32, 0.36
>     Nervous system diseases          20      39.9   
> 0.50  0.31, 0.77
>     Circulatory system diseases     350     832.7   
> 0.42  0.38, 0.47
>     Arteriosclerotic heart
>     disease including CHD(c)        248     524.6   
> 0.47  0.42, 0.54
> All vascular lesions of CNS          24      89.5   
> 0.27  0.17, 0.40
> All respiratory diseases             37     129.1   
> 0.29  0.20, 0.40
> All pneumonia                         8      48.1   
> 0.17  0.07, 0.33
> Digestive system diseases            32     148.9   
> 0.21  0.15, 0.30
> 
> (a) Expected number of deaths based on age-,
> gender-, calendar year-
>     and cause-specific mortality rates for the U.S.
> population during
>     1979–1997.
> (b) Central nervous system.
> (c) Coronary heart disease.
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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