re Healthy workers

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Group:
If like cohorts are compared there is no "healthy worker effect."

Matanoski, et al. in the Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study compared non-nuclear
shipyard workers with all adult white males and the SMR was 1.0, with a 95%
CI of 0.97, 1.03.

Also, they found that "The SMR's for leukemia and all lymphatic and
hematopoietic cancers indicate risks of these diseases among nuclear workers
which are below those of the general population."

See table 4.1.A in their report for details

Wade Patterson