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Table 9 Adjusted HRs (95 % CIs) for lung cancer mortality per 100 Bq/m3 mean county-level residential radon concentrations (LBL) at enrollment (1982) stratified by selected risk factors, effect modification multiplicative scale, follow-up 1982–1988, CPS-II cohort, United States [13]

From: Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies

Characteristic

n

Lung cancer deaths

Fully adjusted HR (95 % CI)

P

Cigarette Smoking

 Never-Smoker

375,087

271

0.77 (0.47–1.25)

 

 Current

152,033

1792

1.20 (1.00–1.44)

 

 Former

203,253

941

1.09 (0.84–1.41)

0.66