Open AccessMortality in Underground Miners in a Former Uranium Ore Mine
Author(s) -
Michaela Kreuzer,
Veronika Deffner,
Maria Schnelzer,
Nora Fenske
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
deutsches ärzteblatt international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.436
H-Index - 60
ISSN - 1866-0452
DOI - 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0001
Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , cohort , pneumoconiosis , population , silicosis , standardized mortality ratio , confidence interval , cohort study , surgery , environmental health , pathology
From 1946 to 1990, more than 400 000 people were employed by Wismut AG, a Soviet/Soviet-German corporation (German abbreviation: SAG/ SDAG), in the East German states of Saxony and Thuringia. In the early years in particular, employees were exposed to large amounts of radon and respirable crystalline silica.