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SynthesisRadiation and environmental biophysics2019

Meta-analysis of case-control studies on the relationship between lung cancer and indoor radon exposure.

Georgy Malinovsky, Ilia Yarmoshenko, Aleksey Vasilyev

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Synthesis in Radiation and environmental biophysics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Systematic review and meta-analysis of residential radon and lung cancer in never-smokers.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021
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  4. Environmental Risk Factors and Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  7. Etiology of lung cancer: Evidence from epidemiologic studies.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2022
    Review
  8. Lung cancer risk in never-smokers: An overview of environmental and genetic factors.Chinese journal of cancer research = Chung-kuo yen cheng yen chiu · 2021
    Article
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  11. Analysis of Indoor Radon Data Using Bayesian, Random Binning, and Maximum Entropy Methods.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Georgy MalinovskyInstitute of Industrial Ecology UB RAS, 20, Sophy Kovalevskoy Str., Yekaterinburg, 620219, Russia. georgy@ecko.uran.ru.ORCID 0000-0002-9543-3874
Ilia YarmoshenkoInstitute of Industrial Ecology UB RAS, 20, Sophy Kovalevskoy Str., Yekaterinburg, 620219, Russia.
Aleksey VasilyevInstitute of Industrial Ecology UB RAS, 20, Sophy Kovalevskoy Str., Yekaterinburg, 620219, Russia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indoor exposure to natural radon is a factor that influences lung cancer risk worldwide. The present study includes a meta-analysis of epidemiological data on the relationship between lung cancer and indoor radon. Altogether, 31 case-control studies with 20,703 cases, 34,518 controls and 140 individual odds ratio (OR) estimates are included in the meta-analysis. Weighted median OR was calculated for five radon intervals. The following parameters were used for the weighting: standard error of OR, duration of radon concentration measurement, and relative number of controls in reference intervals. The dependence of the weighted median OR on the radon concentration was estimated applying linear non-threshold and threshold models. The results obtained suggest a significant linear no-threshold exposure-effect relationship for radon concentrations above 100 Bq/m

Indexed as

Air Pollutants, RadioactiveAir Pollution, IndoorCase-Control StudiesHumansLung NeoplasmsRadiation ExposureRadonAir Pollutants, RadioactiveRadonLung cancerMeta-analysisNon-threshold relationshipRadonRisk

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PMID30535840

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