Mortality and ionising radiation exposures among workers employed at the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center (1951–1985)

• Published in: Occupational and environmental medicine (London, England) Vol. 70; no. 7; pp. 453 - 463
• Main Authors: Silver, Sharon R, Bertke, Stephen J, Hein, Misty Jena, Daniels, Robert D, Fleming, Donald A, Anderson, Jeri L, Pinney, Susan M, Hornung, Richard W, Tseng, Chih-Yu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.07.2013; BMJ Publishing Group; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: A priori knowledge; Adult; Applied sciences; Bioassays; Biological and medical sciences; Biological effects of radiation; Bone marrow; Cancer; Cause of Death; Cohort Studies; Death; Dosage; Dose response relationship; Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; Dosimetry; Employees; Employment; Energy; Exact sciences and technology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General, economic and professional studies; Healthy Worker Effect; Human subjects; Humans; Industry; Ionizing radiation; Ionizing radiations; Lung cancer; Lung neoplasms; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; Mortality patterns; Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced - mortality; Occupational Diseases - mortality; Occupational Exposure - adverse effects; Occupational medicine; Ohio - epidemiology; Proportional Hazards Models; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Radiation; Radiation dosage; Radiation, Ionizing; Radiotherapy; Radon; Respiratory diseases; Sex Distribution; Staff. Occupational work. Work management. Control. Safety. Accidents. Professional diseases; Tissues, organs and organisms biophysics; Uranium; White people; Workers; Workplace; Young Adult; Ohio; United States > US; Human; Nuclear industry; Ionizing radiation; Employee; Uranium; Mortality; Worker; Occupational exposure; Epidemiology; Antecedent; Radiation exposure (person); Occupational medicine

Objectives To examine mortality patterns and dose-response relations between ionising radiation and mortality outcomes of a priori interest in 6409 uranium workers employed for at least 30 days (1951–1985), and followed through 2004. Methods Cohort mortality was evaluated through standardised mortal...