Uranium mill workers’ mortality (since 1960) from selected causes of death (state referent rates): update of cohort to 1998
| Underlying cause of death (ICD9 code)* | Obs | Exp | SMR | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *International Classification of Disease codes, 9th revision. | ||||
| †95% confidence interval excludes the null value (1.0). | ||||
| ‡99% confidence interval excludes the null value (1.0). | ||||
| All respiratory CA (160–165) | 75 | 51.98 | 1.44‡ | 1.13 to 1.81 |
| Trachea, bronchus, and lung (162) | 75 | 49.73 | 1.51‡ | 1.19 to 1.89 |
| Leukaemia/aleukaemia (204–208) | 5 | 6.51 | 0.77 | 0.25 to 1.80 |
| Lymphatic and haematopoietic CA other than leukaemia (200–203) | 15 | 9.58 | 1.57 | 0.88 to 2.58 |
| Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (200, 202) | 8 | 5.71 | 1.40 | 0.60 to 2.76 |
| Hodgkin’s disease (201) | 4 | 0.94 | 4.24† | 1.15 to 10.84 |
| Myeloma (203) | 3 | 2.93 | 1.02 | 0.21 to 3.00 |
| Other/unspecified CA (187, 194–199) | 22 | 11.93 | 1.84‡ | 1.16 to 2.79 |
| Non-malignant respiratory diseases (460–519) | 94 | 79.32 | 1.19 | 0.96 to 1.45 |
| Chronic and unspecified bronchitis (490–491) | 1 | 2.74 | 0.36 | 0.01 to 2.03 |
| Emphysema (492) | 19 | 15.22 | 1.25 | 0.75 to 1.95 |
| Asbestosis (501) | 0 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.00 to 30.62 |
| Silicosis (502) | 1 | 0.45 | 2.22 | 0.06 to 12.36 |
| Other pneumoconioses (500, 503, 505) | 2 | 0.40 | 5.04 | 0.61 to 18.19 |
| Other respiratory diseases (470–478, 494–499, 504, 506–519) | 47 | 34.86 | 1.35 | 0.99 to 1.79 |
| Non-malignant genitourinary disease (580–629) | 10 | 10.51 | 0.95 | 0.46 to 1.75 |
| Acute renal disease (580–581, 584) | 1 | 0.79 | 1.26 | 0.03 to 6.99 |
| Chronic renal disease (582–583, 585–587) | 5 | 4.89 | 1.02 | 0.33 to 2.39 |