Still-Births Among the Offspring of Male Radiation Workers at the Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing Plant: Detailed Results and Statistical Aspects
研究了父亲在塞拉菲尔德核设施工作期间受电离辐射暴露与后代死产风险的关系，发现父亲受孕前总外照射剂量与死产风险显著正相关，并详细介绍了统计方法和完整结果。
Summary. This study investigates whether there was evidence of increasing risk of still‐birth with increasing paternal exposure to ionizing radiation received during employment at the Sellafield nuclear installation before the child was conceived. A significant positive association is found between the total paternal preconceptional exposure to external ionizing radiation and the risk of still‐birth (after adjustment for year of birth, social class, birth order and paternal age, odds ratio at 100 mSv 1.24 (95% confidence interval 1.04–1.45)). A summary of the principal scientific findings of this study has been published in the Lancet. This paper describes in detail the statistical methods that were used in the investigation and presents the results in full.