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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2009 Aug;97(2):132–144. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181ac4c15

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for measured radon, airborne PAECs, dose rates, F, fp and surface deposited radon progeny by smoking status

Variables Environment (n) Range Median Mean (SD) Unit
Short-term
222Rn
Nonsmoking (62) 33–940 285 317 (218)
Smoking (36) 11–429 141 159 (111) Bqm−3
Total (98) 11–940 205 259 (200)
Unattached
PAEC
Nonsmoking (62) 0.4–14.6 2.6 3.5 (3.0)
Smoking (36) 0.2–5.2 1.0 1.2 (1.0) mWL
Total (98) 0.2–14.6 1.6 2.7 (2.7)
Attached
PAEC
Nonsmoking (62) 0.3–101.5 6.5 12.7 (16.6)
Smoking (36) 0.1–53.6 9.4 13.6 (13.4) mWL
Total (98) 0.1–101.5 8.1 13.1 (15.4)
Pdose Nonsmoking (62) 3.5–166.1 26.2 37.4 (31.4)
Smoking (36) 1.5–54.9 11.9 14.9 (11.6) mSvyr−1
Total (98) 1.5–166.1 20.9 29.1 (28.1)
Jdose Nonsmoking (62) 1.7–117.7 16.2 22.3 (19.7)
Smoking (36) 0.7–42.0 8.5 12.4 (10.1) mSvyr−1
Total (98) 0.7–117.7 13.5 18.7 (17.5)
F Nonsmoking (62) 0.03–0.62 0.16 0.20 (0.16)
Smoking (36) 0.06–0.70 0.30 0.32 (0.18)
Total (98) 0.03–0.70 0.22 0.25 (0.17)
Fp Nonsmoking (62) 0.04–0.95 0.21 0.34 (0.26)
Smoking (36) 0.02–0.72 0.09 0.18 (0.18)
Total (98) 0.02–0.95 0.15 0.28 (0.25)
Long-term
222Rn
Nonsmoking (62) 19–740 250 272 (172)
Smoking (36) 4–474 159 184 (105) Bqm−3
Total (98) 4–740 218 239 (157)
Deposited
218Po
Nonsmoking (48) 0.5–269.7 23.4 40.8 (48.3)
Smoking (24) 5.8–71.6 17.6 23.0 (18.7) Bqm−2
Total (72) 0.5–269.7 20.4 34.8 (41.5)
Deposited
214Po
Nonsmoking (48) 2.4–95.9 24.2 29.5 (22.5)
Smoking (24) 4.7–51.7 14.1 17.0 (10.6) Bqm−2
Total (72) 2.4–95.9 19.2 25.3 (20.2)