[PDF] Top 20 Radon Exposure: A Hazard to Children

... world have shown that underground miners ex- posed to radon have an increased risk of lung can- cer.6’2 Additionally, epidemiologic studies in Swe- den have suggested that increased expo[r] ... See full document

... excessive exposure causes skin cancer and other adverse health ...melanoma. Exposure to UVR from sunlight and artificial sources early in life elevates the risk of developing skin ...sun exposure ... See full document

... UVR exposure during health- supervision visits and at other relevant ...sun exposure, wearing protective sunglasses, and applying and reapplying ...Sun exposure and vitamin D status are ...sunlight ... See full document

... Wearing a hat with a brim can reduce UV-B exposure to the eyes by 50%. Sunglasses should be worn whenever the child may be in the sun long enough to get a sunburn or tan. Sunglasses should be chosen to block 99% ... See full document

... American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Genetics and Environmental Hazards: The environmental conse- quences of tobacco smoking: Implications for public policies that affect the hea[r] ... See full document

... school children in ...tympanometry. Children with type B tympanograms in one or both ears were categorized as having middle ear effu- ...the children lived (rent- ed versus ...among children ... See full document

... Recent studies conducted by the National Cancer Institute have shown unequiv- ocally that the use of smokeless tobacco is associ- ated with an increased risk of death from cancer of. the[r] ... See full document

... Radon moves either by diffusion or by transporation mechanism or by both ...high radon exposure hazards ...to radon emitting alpha- particles followed by gamma- ...many radon atoms are ... See full document

... Pediatric Environmental Specialty Units (http:// www. cdc. gov/ features/ pehsu/ ) in the United States and via continuing education, webinars, and other programs sponsored by professional organizations such as the ... See full document

... of radon and its radioactive decay products as human carcinogens has been established by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 1988 and is sup- ported by the experimental evidences obtained by the ... See full document

... Since radon is a health hazard and a risk factor for some types of cancers including lung cancer [7], many studies have been conducted worldwide to determine its concentration in different environmental ... See full document

... The vulnerability is a measure of non-response of a community to a possible radioactive treat. In a heavily built area is not easy to perform radioactivity survey. A major problem arose from the distrust of the ... See full document

... Internal exposure due to inhalation of radon and its DPR is a major contributor to the individual annual effective exposure dose of the population of the Russian ...the radon EEVA levels that ... See full document

... spatio-temporal exposure to earthquake hazard in a metropolitan ...population exposure to earthquake ...population exposure in the daily cycle and the need to move beyond conventional ... See full document

... Increasing radon exposure was not associated with invasive breast cancer risk overall (adjusted HR comparing highest to lowest quintile = ...higher radon exposure and risk of ER−/PR- breast ... See full document

... There are twenty recognized isotopes of sodium, ranging from 18 Na to 37 Na and two isomers (22m Na and 24m Na). 23 Na is the only stable (and the only primordial) isotope. As such, it is considered a monoisotopic ... See full document

... used radon-re- leasing mattresses based only on the report regarding the con- centration of radon in a specific mattress model announced by the Korean ...to radon exposure is a stochastic ... See full document

... reduce, exposure to earthquake- triggered ...Landslide hazard, defined as the conditional probability of intersecting a landslide in one of the six earthquakes, increases exponentially with local ... See full document

... (a) hazard information providing in- put to the exposure of elements at risk, and (b) information on the building stock combined from different spatial data avail- able on the national ...level. ... See full document

... One of the principal problems in the cohort studies on miners is the lack of adjustment for tobacco use, since only 3 of the studies collected individualised data on tobacco use. 14,19,21 The papers in which tobacco use ... See full document