Results of cytogenetic examinations of miners exposed to radon in ore mines
Creators
- 1. Institute of Preventive and Clinical Medicine, Limbova 14, SK-83301 Bratislava (Slovakia)
Description
In this study the radon air concentrations and clastogenic effects at three ore mines located in central east Slovakia, the gold mine of Hodrusa-Hamre, talcum mine of Hnusta, and iron ore mine in Nizna Slana are compared with the chromosomal aberrations observed in a control group of healthy men which experienced underground work. A random sample of radon concentration measurements in houses was used for control. Significant differences in counts of aberrations of the chromosomal type in lymphocytes of smoker-miners of Nizna Slana as compared with counts of such aberrations in lymphocytes of a control group of similar age were found. A dependence of chromosomal aberration counts from the underground exposure to radon by multiple regression procedures could not be ascertained. The results indicated that confounding of such dependence by smoking might have taken place
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Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic
- Imprint Place
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Imprint Title
- Radiation Hygiene Days 1998. Conference Proceedings of the 21-st Radiation Hygiene Days
- Imprint Pagination
- 250 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 102-106
- Report number
- INIS-SK--98-014
Conference
- Title
- 21. Radiation Hygiene Days
- Dates
- 23-27 Nov 1998
- Place
- Jasna pod Chopkom (Slovakia)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Slovakia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Slovakia
- INIS RN
- 30017820
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTIVITY LEVELS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CHROMOSOMAL ABERRATIONS; CHRONIC IRRADIATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HUMAN CHROMOSOMES; HUMAN POPULATIONS; INDOOR AIR CONTAMINATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MINERS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOECOLOGY; RADON; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SLOVAKIA; TOBACCO SMOKES; WORKING CONDITIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- AEROSOLS; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES; CHRONIC EXPOSURE; COLLOIDS; CONTAMINATION; DATA; DISEASES; DISPERSIONS; EASTERN EUROPE; ECOLOGY; ELEMENTS; EUROPE; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; INFORMATION; IRRADIATION; MONITORING; MUTATIONS; NONMETALS; NUMERICAL DATA; PERSONNEL; POPULATIONS; RADIATIONS; RARE GASES; RESIDUES; SMOKES; SOLS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 3 tabs., 24 refs.