Raised mortality from lung cancer and high sex ratios of births associated with industrial pollution.
Geographical and temporal associations were shown between high mortality from lung cancer and a high sex ratio of births both in the town of Bathgate (Scotland) and in the area of that town which was most exposed to polluted air from a local steel foundry. These findings constituted a replication of a similar association in an adjacent town.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008669:Metallurgy; D012606:Scotland; D012744:Sex Ratio