Table 1.
Estimates of lung cancer deaths attributable to indoor radon exposure in France in 1999 according to different exposure–response relations.
| No. of lung cancer deaths attributable to indoor radon
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| Percentiles
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Attributable percentage
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| Dose–response relationships | Mean ± SD | UI (90%)a | Mode | 10th | 50th | 90th | Dispersion | Mean | UI (90%)a |
| Studies of miners | |||||||||
| EADb | 2,066 ± 82 | 1,934–2,203 | 2,001 | 1,962 | 2,064 | 2,171 | 1.14 | 8 | 8.0–9.0 |
| EACc | 2,913 ± 92 | 2,763–3,067 | 2,834 | 2,795 | 2,912 | 3,032 | 1.11 | 12 | 11.0–12.0 |
| FCZd | 3,108 ± 68 | 2,996–3,221 | 3,028 | 3,020 | 3,107 | 3,195 | 1.08 | 12 | 12.0–13.0 |
| Indoor studies | |||||||||
| Lubin1e | 543 ± 314 | 75–1,097 | 485 | 139 | 519 | 970 | 14.60 | 2 | 0.3–4.4 |
| Lubin25f | 2,642 ± 1,396 | 518–5,121 | 2,982 | 920 | 2,856 | 4,671 | 9.90 | 11 | 2.1–20.0 |
| Darby | 1,234 ± 492 | 593–2,156 | 995 | 688 | 1,151 | 1,884 | 3.64 | 5 | 2.4– 9.0 |
a
UIs from the uncertainty analysis.
b
EAD model (BEIR 1999).
c
EAC model (BEIR 1999).
d
Risk model from the European research project concerning the French and Czech cohort of uranium miners (Tirmarche et al. 2003).
e
Risk model from the joint analysis of the seven North American case-control studies restricted to subjects with some radon measurments within the ETW of 25 years (Lubin 2003).
f
Risk model from the joint analysis of the seven North American case-control studies restricted to individuals for whom measurements covered the whole ETW (Lubin 2003).