ArticleDose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society2010
The healthy worker effect and nuclear industry workers.
Article in Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Cancer risk in diagnostic radiation workers in Korea from 1996–2002.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Article
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- Quantification of the healthy worker effect: a nationwide cohort study among electricians in Denmark.BMC public health · 2011Article
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- Observations on the Chernobyl Disaster and LNT.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society · 2010Article
- Special issue introduction.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society · 2010Article
- Healthy Worker Effect Phenomenon: Revisited with Emphasis on Statistical Methods - A Review.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicineReview
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Abstract
The linear no-threshold (LNT) dose-effect relationship has been consistently used by most radiation epidemiologists to estimate cancer mortality risk. The large scattering of data by International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC (Vrijheid et al. 2007; Therry-Chef et al. 2007; Cardis et al. 2007), interpreted in accordance with LNT, has been previously demonstrated (Fornalski and Dobrzyński 2009). Using conventional and Bayesian methods the present paper demonstrates that the standard mortality ratios (SMRs), lower in the IARC cohort of exposed nuclear workers than in the non exposed group, should be considered as a hormetic effect, rather than a healthy worker effect (HWE) as claimed by the IARC group.
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