[ RadSafe ] U.S. Nuclear Power Industry Workers Study - Table 2
John Jacobus
crispy_bird at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 16 19:24:38 CET 2005
I am not going to review the article for you. I
assume you are smart enough to read and interpret what
it says. I do not intend to influence your position
for or against hormesis or the LNT.
If you still want the paper, let me know.
--- George Stanford <gstanford at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
---------------------------------
If the article pertains to the specific question about
radiation
workers -- a justification for not ruling out the
possibility
that hormesis could be operating -- I would like to
see it.
But if it's merely a generic discussion of the
healthy-worker
effect, don't bother.
Thanksmuch for the offer.
GeorgeStanford
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At 09:36 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote:
I have an article that discussesthis:
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:"...Thecohort
> 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
workereffect"?
>
>
> 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, 1979â1997
>
>Cause Observed
> Expected(a) SMR 95%CI
> Allcauses 1,190 2922.4
> 0.41 0.38, 0.43
> All solidcancers 368 564.3
> 0.65 0.59, 0.72
> Stomachcancer 16 19.7
> 0.81 0.47, 1.32
> Coloncancer 36 47.8
> 0.75 0.53, 1.04
> Pancreaticcancer 18 29.0
> 0.62 0.37, 0.98
> Lungcancer 125 210.4
> 0.59 0.49, 0.71
> Prostaticcancer 14 23.2
> 0.60 0.33, 1.01
> Kidneycancer 14 17.7
> 0.79 0.43, 1.32
> Brain and otherCNS(b)cancer 23 27.0
> 0.85 0.54, 1.28
> All lymphopoieticcancer 49 75.7
> 0.65 0.48, 0.86
> Multiplemyeloma 6 9.5
> 0.63 0.23, 1.37
> Leukemia 29 27.2
> 1.07 0.71, 1.53
> Allnoncancers 773 2282.3
> 0.34 0.32, 0.36
> Nervous systemdiseases 20 39.9
> 0.50 0.31, 0.77
> Circulatory systemdiseases 350 832.7
> 0.42 0.38, 0.47
> Arteriosclerotic heart
> disease includingCHD(c) 248 524.6
> 0.47 0.42, 0.54
> All vascular lesions ofCNS 24 89.5
> 0.27 0.17, 0.40
> All respiratorydiseases 37 129.1
> 0.29 0.20, 0.40
> Allpneumonia 8 48.1
> 0.17 0.07, 0.33
> Digestive systemdiseases 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 theU.S.
> population during
> 1979â1997.
> (b) Central nervous system.
> (c) Coronary heart disease.
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