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IJE Advance Access originally published online on December 14, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(2):231-232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi292
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Commentary: Seeing the light

Bruce K Armstrong

School of Public Health, Edward Ford Building A27, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. E-mail: brucea@health.usyd.edu.au

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Cedric and Frank Garland1 observed that metropolitan states in the south-west of the US had lower mortality rates from colon cancer in 1959–61, on average ~10 per 100 000 per year age-adjusted in white males, than metropolitan states in the north-west, on average ~15 per 100 000. They reported that the rank order coefficient of correlation between colon cancer mortality and solar irradiance across the metropolitan states was –0.7. It was –0.6 across non-metropolitan states . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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