Stewart A M, Kneale G W
J Epidemiol Community Health. 1984 Jun;38(2):108-12. doi: 10.1136/jech.38.2.108.
A slight rearrangement of the data included in a recent report from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) has shown differences between cardiovascular and other non-malignant diseases of A-bomb survivors which probably result from two factors: selection effects of early infection deaths and residual effects of marrow damage. Both effects were dose related but neither was obvious becasue one reduced the risk of later infection deaths and the other increased the risk. Allowance for these factors is bound to alter present RERF estimates for cancer effects of radiation and the change will probably be in an upward direction, thus bringing these estimates closer to ones based on radiation workers.
辐射效应研究基金会（RERF）近期报告中所包含数据的轻微重新排列显示，原子弹爆炸幸存者的心血管疾病和其他非恶性疾病之间存在差异，这可能是由两个因素导致的：早期感染死亡的选择效应以及骨髓损伤的残留效应。这两种效应都与剂量相关，但两者都不明显，因为一种效应降低了后期感染死亡的风险，而另一种效应则增加了风险。考虑到这些因素必然会改变RERF目前对辐射致癌效应的估计，而且这种变化可能是向上的，从而使这些估计更接近基于辐射工作者的估计。
