Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016
OBJECTIVES: Exposure to ionizing radiation may increase the risk of circulatory diseases, including heart disease. A limited number of cohort studies of underground miners have investigated these associations. We previously reported a positive but non-statistically significant association between ra...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9968242 2023-05-15T17:21:13+02:00 Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016 Villeneuve, Paul J. Morrison, Howard I. Volesky, Karena Lane, Rachel S. D. 2022-11-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968242/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36319769 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01932-x en eng Springer Berlin Heidelberg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968242/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36319769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01932-x © The Authors 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . CC-BY Int Arch Occup Environ Health Original Article Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01932-x 2023-03-05T02:26:02Z OBJECTIVES: Exposure to ionizing radiation may increase the risk of circulatory diseases, including heart disease. A limited number of cohort studies of underground miners have investigated these associations. We previously reported a positive but non-statistically significant association between radon progeny and heart disease in a cohort of Newfoundland fluorspar miners. In this study, we report updated findings that incorporate 15 additional years of follow-up. METHODS: The cohort included 2050 miners who worked in the fluorspar mines from 1933 to 1978. Statistics Canada linked the personal identifying data of the miners to Canadian mortality data to identify deaths from 1950 to 2016. We used previously derived individual-level estimates of annual radon progeny exposure in working-level months. Cumulative exposure was categorized into quantiles. We estimated relative risks and their 95% confidence intervals using Poisson regression for deaths from circulatory, ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. Relative risks were adjusted for attained age, calendar year, and the average number of cigarettes smoked daily. RESULTS: Relative to the Newfoundland male population, the standardized mortality ratio for circulatory disease in this cohort was 0.82 (95% CI 0.74–0.91). Those in the highest quantile of cumulative radon progeny exposure had a relative risk of circulatory disease mortality of 1.03 (95% CI 0.76–1.40) compared to those in the lowest quantile. The corresponding estimates for ischemic disease and acute myocardial infarction were 0.99 (95% CI 0.66–1.48), and 1.39 (95% CI 0.84–2.30), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings do not support the hypothesis that occupational exposure to radon progeny increases the risk of circulatory disease. Text Newfoundland PubMed Central (PMC) Canada International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 96 3 411 418 |
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OBJECTIVES: Exposure to ionizing radiation may increase the risk of circulatory diseases, including heart disease. A limited number of cohort studies of underground miners have investigated these associations. We previously reported a positive but non-statistically significant association between radon progeny and heart disease in a cohort of Newfoundland fluorspar miners. In this study, we report updated findings that incorporate 15 additional years of follow-up. METHODS: The cohort included 2050 miners who worked in the fluorspar mines from 1933 to 1978. Statistics Canada linked the personal identifying data of the miners to Canadian mortality data to identify deaths from 1950 to 2016. We used previously derived individual-level estimates of annual radon progeny exposure in working-level months. Cumulative exposure was categorized into quantiles. We estimated relative risks and their 95% confidence intervals using Poisson regression for deaths from circulatory, ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. Relative risks were adjusted for attained age, calendar year, and the average number of cigarettes smoked daily. RESULTS: Relative to the Newfoundland male population, the standardized mortality ratio for circulatory disease in this cohort was 0.82 (95% CI 0.74–0.91). Those in the highest quantile of cumulative radon progeny exposure had a relative risk of circulatory disease mortality of 1.03 (95% CI 0.76–1.40) compared to those in the lowest quantile. The corresponding estimates for ischemic disease and acute myocardial infarction were 0.99 (95% CI 0.66–1.48), and 1.39 (95% CI 0.84–2.30), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings do not support the hypothesis that occupational exposure to radon progeny increases the risk of circulatory disease. |
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Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016 |
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Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016 |
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Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016 |
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Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016 |
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Circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016 |
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circulatory system disease mortality and occupational exposure to radon progeny in the cohort of newfoundland fluorspar miners between 1950 and 2016 |
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