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ArticleTheScientificWorldJournal2014

Lung cancer mortality and radon concentration in a chronically exposed neighborhood in Chihuahua, Mexico: a geospatial analysis.

Octavio R Hinojosa de la Garza, Luz H Sanín, María Elena Montero Cabrera, Korina Ivette Serrano Ramirez, Enrique Martínez Meyer, Manuel Reyes Cortés

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Article in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Radon Biomonitoring and microRNA in Lung Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
    Review
  3. Article
  4. The health effects of radon and uranium on the population of Kazakhstan.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2015
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Octavio R Hinojosa de la GarzaCentro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C., Complejo Industrial Chihuahua, Avenida Miguel de Cervantes 120, 31109 Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico ; Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario Campus II, 31240 Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico.
Luz H SanínFacultad de Enfermería y Nutriología, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario Campus II, 31240 Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico.
María Elena Montero CabreraCentro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C., Complejo Industrial Chihuahua, Avenida Miguel de Cervantes 120, 31109 Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico.
Korina Ivette Serrano RamirezFacultad de Enfermería y Nutriología, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario Campus II, 31240 Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico.
Enrique Martínez MeyerInstituto de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-233, 4510 Mexico DF, Mexico.
Manuel Reyes CortésFacultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario Campus II, 31240 Chihuahua, CHIH, Mexico.
Autonomous University of Chihuahua · MXCentro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados · MXUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study correlated lung cancer (LC) mortality with statistical data obtained from government public databases. In order to asses a relationship between LC deaths and radon accumulation in dwellings, indoor radon concentrations were measured with passive detectors randomly distributed in Chihuahua City. Kriging (K) and Inverse-Distance Weighting (IDW) spatial interpolations were carried out. Deaths were georeferenced and Moran's I correlation coefficients were calculated. The mean values (over n = 171) of the interpolation of radon concentrations of deceased's dwellings were 247.8 and 217.1 Bq/m(3), for K and IDW, respectively. Through the Moran's I values obtained, correspondingly equal to 0.56 and 0.61, it was evident that LC mortality was directly associated with locations with high levels of radon, considering a stable population for more than 25 years, suggesting spatial clustering of LC deaths due to indoor radon concentrations.

Indexed as

Environmental ExposureAir Pollutants, RadioactiveCitiesCluster AnalysisGeographic Information SystemsGeographic MappingHumansLung NeoplasmsMexicoRadonSpatial AnalysisAir Pollutants, RadioactiveRadon

Identifiers

PMID25165752
PMCPMC4138886
OpenAlexW2035560418

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