Potassium contents tends to be proportional to body weight.
In the man
measured, the average Potassium content is 9.183% of body weight; whereas a
slightly lower value of 0.157% was measured for women.
This compares closely
with average Potassium values of 0.188% of body weight for men and 0.154% for
women as measured with
a Nal(Tl)
crystal
counter by Miller and Marineili (2),
Anderson, et at, ') report that the Potassium content of the adult male is
0.19% of gross body weight as measured in the Los Alamos Human Counter.
Cesium
It
has
from milk.
been
about 50% of the Cesium 137 in people comes
An attempt was made to correlate our Cesium measurements with milk
consumption.
content to
fraction
stated'>) that
Plotted values show that although there is a trend for Cesium
increase with milk
of
the
observed
consumption,
individual
this
accounts
differences.
for
only
Several
a
small
reasons
are
postulated for these individual differences:
1.
Milk consumption was an estimated and not a measured quantity.
2.
No
account was taken of the
consumption
of cheese and
other dairy
products.
3.
The milk supply in Salt Lake City comes from widely scattered areas
which may differ appreciably in fallout contaminations.
4.
Individual
differences
may
exist
in
the
ability
to
assimilate
and
retain Cesium.
5.
The standard deviation,
13 unc cs!37 gram K, of an individual meas-
urement amounts to about 20% of the average Cesium to Potassium ratio.
This
contributes to scatter in Cs/K values but accounts for only part of the ob-
served variation.
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