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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiat Res. 2013 Feb 7;179(3):332–342. doi: 10.1667/RR3054.1

TABLE 5.

Estimated Excess Deaths Associated with Smoking and Plutonium Exposure (percentage given in parentheses)a

Males Females Total
Observed 416 35 451
Fitted 416 35 451
Background 32.0 (7.7) 9.8 (28.0) 41.8 (9.3)
Excess from
 Smoking alone 302.4 (72.7) 5.1 (14.6) 307.5 (68.2)
 Plutonium alone 27.9 (6.7) 17.8 (50.9) 45.7 (10.1)
 Smoking plus plutonium 53.7 (12.9) 2.3 (6.6) 56.0 (12.4)
a

Based on generalized additive relative risk model shown in Table 4.

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