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SMOKING AS A CONFOUNDER IN ECOLOGIC CORRELATIONS OF CANCER MORTALITY RATES WITH AVERAGE COUNTY RADON LEVELS

Name: SMOKING AS A CONFOUNDER IN ECOLOGIC CORRELATIONS OF CANCER MORTALITY RATES WITH AVERAGE COUNTY RADON LEVELS
Creator: Puskin, J. S.
Keywords: Male, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced, Geography, Smoking, Statistics as Topic, Reproducibility of Results, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Models, Biological, Sensitivity and Specificity, Respiratory Tract Neoplasms

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 2003 English Publisher:Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Journal:Health Physics, volume 84, pages 526-532 (issn: 0017-9078,

Authors: Puskin, J. S.;

doi: 10.1097/00004032-200304000-00012

pmid: 12705451

SMOKING AS A CONFOUNDER IN ECOLOGIC CORRELATIONS OF CANCER MORTALITY RATES WITH AVERAGE COUNTY RADON LEVELS

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Cohen has reported a negative correlation between lung cancer mortality and average radon levels by county. In this paper, the correlation of U.S. county mortality rates for various types of cancers during the period 1970-1994 with Cohen's radon measurements is examined. In general, quantitatively similar, strongly negative correlations are found for cancers strongly linked to cigarette smoking, weaker negative correlations are found for cancers moderately increased by smoking, whereas no such correlation is found for cancers not linked to smoking. The results indicate that the negative trend previously reported for lung cancer can be largely accounted for by a negative correlation between smoking and radon levels across counties. Hence, the observed ecological correlation provides no substantial evidence for a protective effect of low level radon exposure.

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Male, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced, Geography, Smoking, Statistics as Topic, Reproducibility of Results, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Models, Biological, Sensitivity and Specificity, Respiratory Tract Neoplasms, United States, Air Pollutants, Radioactive, Organ Specificity, Radon, Linear Models, Humans, Regression Analysis, Female, Radiometry

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