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Table 2 Mortality in employees

From: Microwaves in the cold war: the Moscow embassy study and its interpretation. Review of a retrospective cohort study

 

Moscow

   

Other embassies

  

Ratio of SMRs

 

obs

exp

SMR

95% CI

 

obs

exp

SMR

95% CI

 

added

All causes

49

105.3

0.47

0.4-

0.6

132

223.7

0.59

0.5-

0.7

0.8

Arteriosclerotic heart disease

16

32.6

0.49

0.3-

0.8

28

73.2

0.38

0.2-

0.6

1.3

All malignant neoplasms

17

19.0

0.89

0.5-

1.4

47

41.1

1.1

0.8-

1.5

0.8

All malignant neoplasms - male

11

 

0.63

  

33

 

1.3

  

0.5

All malignant neoplasms - female

8

 

1.1

  

14

 

0.94

  

1.2

Digestive organs

3

4.6

0.65

0.1-

1.9

11

10.8

1

0.5-

1.8

 

Brain tumours

0

0.9

0.0

  

5

1.5

3.3

1.1-

7.7

0.0

Lung

5

5.8

0.86

0.3-

2

11

12.2

0.90

0.4-

1.6

1.0

Leukaemia

2

0.8

2.5

0.3-

9

3

1.7

1.8

0.4-

5.3

1.4

Breast

2

0.5

4.0

0.5-

14.4

3

1.2

2.4

0.5-

7

1.7

  1. obs = observed; exp = expected based on US mortality data; SMR = standardised mortality ratio; CI = confidence interval.
  2. Also shown (numbers in Moscow, other embassies) : pancreas (1,1); Hodgkin disease (0,0); uterus (1,0); cervix (1,0).
  3. Decimal places vary, but are given as in the original. Data from Table 5.6 in main report. Ratio of SMRs added by present author as an approximate measure.