Radiation exposure and circulatory disease risk: Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor data, 1950-2003

Objective To investigate the degree to which ionising radiation confers risk of mortality from heart disease and stroke.Design Prospective cohort study with more than 50 years of follow-up.Setting Atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.Participants 86 611 Life Span Study cohort membe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMJ 2010-01, Vol.340 (7739), p.193-193
Hauptverfasser:	Shimizu, Yukiko, Kodama, Kazunori, Nishi, Nobuo, Kasagi, Fumiyoshi, Suyama, Akihiko, Soda, Midori, Grant, Eric J, Sugiyama, Hiromi, Sakata, Ritsu, Moriwaki, Hiroko, Hayashi, Mikiko, Konda, Manami, Shore, Roy E
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Age Aged Atomic bombs Biological organs Cancer Cardiovascular disease Child Child, Preschool Colon Confidence intervals Diabetes Disease risk Dosage Dose response relationship Drugs: Cardiovascular System Epidemiologic Methods Epidemiologic Studies Epidemiology Female Health Education Health Promotion Health risk assessment Heart Heart diseases Heart Diseases - mortality Humans Hypertension Infant Infant, Newborn Japan - epidemiology Lifestyles Male Middle Aged Mortality Nuclear Warfare Nuclear Weapons Obesity (Nutrition) Obesity (Public Health) Parameter estimation Public health Radiation Radiation Dosage Radiation dose response relationship Radiation effects Radiation Injuries - mortality Radiation therapy Radiotherapy Smoking Smoking and Tobacco Sociodemographics Stroke Stroke - mortality Strokes Studies Survivors Survivors - statistics & numerical data Tomography Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	Objective To investigate the degree to which ionising radiation confers risk of mortality from heart disease and stroke.Design Prospective cohort study with more than 50 years of follow-up.Setting Atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.Participants 86 611 Life Span Study cohort members with individually estimated radiation doses from 0 to >3 Gy (86% received
ISSN:	0959-8138 0959-535X 1468-5833 1756-1833
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.b5349