Mortality in the French cohort of nuclear workers

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Table 2

Mortality in the French nuclear worker cohort compared to that of the French population, 1968–2004.

Cause of death	ICD10 codes	n	SMR	95%CI
All causes	C00–C97	6310	0.60	0.59–0.62
Solid cancers	C00–C80, C97, except C46.3	2356	0.68	0.65–0.71
Mouth and pharynx	C00–C14, C46.2	109	0.40	0.33–0.49
Oesophagus	C15	92	0.45	0.36–0.55
Stomach	C16	99	0.70	0.57–0.86
Colon	C18	169	0.79	0.67–0.91
Rectum	C19–C21	61	0.69	0.53–0.89
Liver	C22	116	0.59	0.49–0.71
Gallbladder	C23–C24	16	0.70	0.40–1.13
Pancreas	C25	139	0.94	0.79–1.11
Peritoneum	C26, C45.1, C48	47	0.89	0.65–1.18
Nasal cavity	C30–C31	32	0.40	0.27–0.57
Larynx	C32	57	0.41	0.31–0.53
Trachea, bronchus and lung	C33–C34	595	0.66	0.60–0.71
Pleura	C38.4, C45.0	43	1.69	1.22–2.27
Bones and articular cartilage	C40–C41	13	0.61	0.33–1.05
Skin melanoma	C43	44	1.40	1.02–1.88
Breast (women)	C50	70	1.05	0.82–1.33
Corpus uteri (women)	C54–C55, C58	12	0.94	0.49–1.65
Ovary (women)	C56, C57.0–C57.4, C57.8	21	1.11	0.69–1.70
Prostate (men)	C61	149	0.81	0.69–0.95
Bladder	C67, C68	56	0.51	0.39–0.66
Kidney	C64–C66	70	0.89	0.69–1.12
Brain et central nervous system	C70–C72	84	1.03	0.82–1.28
Tumours of lymphatic and hematopoietic tissue
All	C46.3, C81–C96	196	0.81	0.70–0.94
Hodgkin disease	C81	17	1.13	0.66–1.82
Non Hodgkin lymphoma	C46.3, C82–C85, C88.0, C88.1, C88.3, C91.4, C96	64	0.73	0.56–0.94
Multiple myeloma and IP tumours	C88, C88.2, C88.7, C88.9, C90	36	0.97	0.68–1.35
Leukaemia excluding CLL	C91.0, C91.2, C91.3, C91.5, C91.7, C92–C95	57	0.69	0.53–0.90
Circulatory diseases	G45, I00–I99	1483	0.62	0.59–0.65
Ischemic heart diseases	I20–I25	587	0.64	0.59–0.70
Cerebrovascular diseases	G45, G45.0–G45.2, G45.8–G45.9, I60–I69	338	0.64	0.58–0.71
Respiratory diseases	J00–J99	200	0.41	0.36–0.47
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	J40–J44, J47	70	0.41	0.32–0.52
Asthma	J45–J46	12	0.37	0.19–0.64
Digestive diseases	K00–K93	270	0.37	0.32–0.41
Cirrhosis	K70	84	0.28	0.22–0.34

ICD10: tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases; n: observed number of deaths in the cohort; SMR: mortality ratio standardized on calendar period, age, and sex; CI: confidence interval; IP: immuno-proliferative; CLL: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

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