Respiratory disease mortality among uranium miners as related to height, radiation, smoking, and latent period
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5229889
A prospective mortality study using a life table method was done on 3366 white underground uranium miners, and 1231 surface workers. Observed deaths were found to exceed those expected from respiratory cancer, pneumoconiosis and related diseases, and accidents related to work. Exposure - response relationships with radiation varied with cigarette smoking and with height of workers. Of four factors involved in both malignant and nonmalignant respiratory diseases (height, free silica, cigarette smoking and alpha radiation), radiation was considered to be most important.
- Research Organization:
- National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5229889
- Report Number(s):
- HRP-0006691
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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