Mayak workers study cohort*: An inter-institutional comparison of causes of death in the cause-of-death register of Ozyorsk in the Russian Federation

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-149

  Azizova, T V ^a   Fedirko, V ^b   Tsareva, Y ^a   Tretyakov, F ^a   Funch Lassen, C ^c   Friis, S ^c   Schuz J ^b  

^a Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI)   (Russian Federation)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Inter institutional comparison; Mortality register; Radiation; Russia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; RUSSIA;

EID: 84858729323     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/me11-01-0049     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Kruglov AK. Development of nuclear industry in the USSR. Moscow: CNII Atominform; 1995. p 380. In Russian.
2. Nikipelov BV, Lyzlov AF, Koshurnikova NA. Experience of the first nuclear facility (exposure levels and workers' health). Nature 1990; 1990: 30-38.
3. Khokhryakov VV, Drozhko EG, Glagolenko YV, et al. Studies on the Ozyorsk population: dosimetry. Radiat Environ Biophys 2002; 41: 33-35.
4. Vasilenko EK, Khokhryakov VF, Miller SC, et al. Mayak worker dosimetry study: an overview. Health Phys 2007; 93: 190-206.
5. Azizova TV, Day RD, Wald N, et al. The "clinic" medical-dosimetric database of Mayak production association workers: structure, characteristics and prospects of utilization. Health Phys 2008; 94: 449-458.
6. Koshurnikova NA, Shilnikova NS, Okatenko PV, et al. Characteristics of the cohort of workers at the Mayak nuclear complex. Radiat Res 1999; 152: 352-363.
7. Sokolnikov ME, Gilbert ES, Preston DL, et al. Lung, liver and bone cancer mortality in Mayak workers. Int J Cancer 2008; 123: 905-911.
8. Shilnikova NS, Preston DL, Ron E, et al. Cancer mortality risk among workers at the Mayak nuclear complex. Radiat Res 2003; 159: 787-798.
9. Azizova TV, Muirhead CR, Druzhinina MB, et al. Cerebrovascular diseases in the cohort of workers first employed at Mayak PA in 1948-1958. Radiat Res 2010; 174: 851-864.
10. Azizova TV, Muirhead CR, Druzhinina MB, et al. Cardiovascular diseases in the cohort of workers first employed at Mayak PA in 1948-1958. Radiat Res 2010; 174: 155-168.
11. Anspaugh LR, Degteva MO, Vasilenko EK. Mayak Production Association: introduction. Radiat Environ Biophys 2002; 41: 19-22.
12. Winkelmann RA, Tretyakov FD, Startsev NV, et al. Cause-of-death registers in radiation-contaminated areas of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan. Radiat Environ Biophys 2002; 41: 5-11.
13. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977; 33: 159-174.
14. US Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program. ICD conversion programs through 2011 diagnoses for ICD9-CM. http://www.seer.cancer.gov/tools/conversion/, March 10, 2011.
15. Jouhet V, Defossez G, Burgun A, Le Beux P, Levillain P, Ingrand P, Claveau V. Automated Classification of Free-text Pathology Reports for Registration of Incident Cases of Cancer. Methods Inf Med. 2011; (epub ahead of print) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME11-01-0005
16. Guidelines for the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Trauma and Causes of Death. Revision of 1975, Geneva; WHO, 1980. In Russian.