The non-cancer mortality experience of male workers at British Nuclear Fuels plc, 1946-2005.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent studies of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb survivors, together with some (but not all) cohorts exposed occupationally or medically to ionizing radiation, have found an increasing trend in mortality from non-malignant disease with increasing radiation dose. The aim of this study was to establish whether such a trend could be found in a large cohort of employees in the UK nuclear industry.

Methods

The cohort comprised 64 937 individuals ever employed at the study sites between 1946 and 2002, followed up to 2005; radiation exposures as measured by personal dosimeters ('film badges') were available for 42 426 individuals classified as 'radiation workers'. Poisson regression models were used to investigate the relationship between excess mortality rates and cu

SUBMITTER: McGeoghegan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2409051 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature