Should radon be reduced in homes?
The uncertainty in the estimated cost per life is large, mainly due to uncertainty in the risk of lung cancer from radon. Based on estimates from road construction, the Norwegian society has been willing to pay $1 million to save a life. This is above the upper uncertainty limit of the cost per life. The intervention against radon in homes, therefore, seems justifiable.
The data indicate that the practice of using only scales to identify "overweight" patients should be reevaluated since doing so will miss patients at risk. In primary care patients, particularly those 50 years of age and over, weight-for-height indices such as the BMI result in underdiagnosis of central obesity.