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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Occup Environ Med. 2020 Jan 31;77(3):194–200. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2019-105981

Table 2.

Distribution of deaths due to all causes, missing cause of death information, and for selected categories of cause of death by cohort.

Study All causes Missing cause of death All cancer Lung cancer Circulatory disease Respiratory disease
Men
 Eldoradoa 4,044 0 1,134 517 1,331 295
 Ontario 8,572 0 2734 1,246 2,804 639
 Czech 5,572 169 2,071 1,176 1,874 288
 France 1,984 59 730 213 464 114
 Wismut 27,738 1,497 8,503 3,759 9,806 2,569
 Colorado Plateau 2,964 22 961 612 797 448
 New Mexico 1,576 5 470 251 379 161
Women
 Eldoradoa 105 0 48 14 25 6
 Wismut 1,907 102 434 37 936 101
PUMA 54,462 17,085 7,825 18,416 4,621

The categories of cause of death correspond to the following ranges of the International Classification of Diseases, ninth revision: all cancers (140–208); lung cancer (162), circulatory disease (390–459), and respiratory disease (460–519).

a

Includes Port Radium, Beaverlodge and Other facilities. “Other” was defined as workers who worked in more than one facility.