Mortality among U.S. astronauts: 1980-2009

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1024-1027

  Reynolds, Robert J ^a   Day, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Physical activity; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS; ASTRONAUTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951607556     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2847.2010     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed mortality files. Retrieved September 4, 2009, from: http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html.
2. Hamm PB, Billica RD, Johnson GS, Wear ML, Pool SL. Risk of cancer mortality among the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH) participants. Aviat Space Environ Med 1998; 69: 142-4. (Pubitemid 28135693)
3. Hamm PB, Nicogossian AE, Pool SL, Wear ML, Billica RD. Design and current status of the longitudinal study of astronaut health. Aviat Space Environ Med 2000; 71: 564-70. (Pubitemid 30341724)
4. Hartman TJ, Albanes D, Rautalahti M, Tangrea JA, Virtamo J, et al. Physical activity and prostate cancer in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene (ATBC) Cancer Prevention Study (Finland). Cancer Causes Control 1998; 9: 11-8. (Pubitemid 28048655)
5. Peel JB, Sui X, Matthews CE, Adams SA, Hebert JR, et al. Cardiorespiratory fi tness and digestive cancer mortality: fi ndings from the aerobics center longitudinal study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18: 1111-7.
6. Peterson LE, Pepper LJ, Hamm PB, Gilbert SL. Longitudinal study of astronaut health: mortality in the years 1959-1991. Radiat Res 1993; 133: 257-64.
7. Slattery ML, Edwards S, Curtin K, Ma K, Edwards R, et al. Physical activity and colorectal cancer. Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158: 214-24. (Pubitemid 36944414)
8. Steindorf K, Friedenreich C, Linseisen J, Rohrmann S, Rundle A, et al. Physical activity and lung cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Cohort. Int J Cancer 2006; 119: 2389-97. (Pubitemid 44546961)
9. Tardon A, Lee WJ, Delgado-Rodriguez M, Dosemeci M, Albanes D, et al. Leisure-time physical activity and lung cancer: a metaanalysis. Cancer Causes Control 2005; 16: 389-97. (Pubitemid 40897831)
10. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Astronaut fact book. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 2005.
11. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA astronaut bios. Retrieved August 24, 2009 from: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/.
12. University of California at Berkeley (USA) and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). Human mortality database. Retrieved September 6, 2009, from: http://www.mortality.org or http://www.humanmortality.de.