Table 2– Non-malignant respiratory disease mortality per 100 Bq·m−3 mean county-level residential radon concentrations at enrolment in 1982 follow-up 1982–2006, American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study-II.
Cause of death | ICD-9 | ICD-10 | Cohen data | LBL data | ||||
Deaths n | Minimally adjusted# | Fully adjusted¶ | Deaths n | Minimally adjusted# | Fully adjusted¶ | |||
Diseases of the respiratory system | 460–519 | J00-J98 | 20406 | 1.04 (0.98–1.09) | 1.11 (1.05–1.17) | 28300 | 1.01 (0.96–1.06) | 1.08 (1.03–1.13) |
Pneumonia and influenza | 480–487 | J10-J18 | 6440 | 1.06 (0.96–1.17) | 1.08 (0.98–1.19) | 9058 | 0.99 (0.91–1.07) | 1.01 (0.92–1.10) |
COPD and allied conditions | 490–496 | J19-J46 | 9664 | 1.02 (0.94–1.11) | 1.14 (1.05–1.23) | 13541 | 1.02 (0.95–1.09) | 1.13 (1.05–1.21) |
All other respiratory diseases | All not specified | All not specified | 4302 | 1.03 (0.92–1.16) | 1.07 (0.95–1.20) | 5701 | 1.02 (0.92–1.13) | 1.05 (0.95–1.16) |
Data are presented as hazard ratio (95% confidence interval), unless otherwise stated. ICD: International Classification of Diseases; LBL: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA); COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. #: age, race, sex and state stratified. ¶: age, race, sex and state stratified and adjusted for education, marital status, body mass index, body mass index squared, cigarette smoking status, cigarettes per day, cigarettes per day squared, duration of smoking, duration of smoking squared, age started smoking, passive smoking, vegetable/fruit/fibre consumption, fat consumption, industrial exposures, and occupation dirtiness index. Data of Cohen from [21, 22].