Prevalence of adult-onset multifactorial disease among offspring of atomic bomb survivors

Radiation Research

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 451-457

  Fujiwara, S ^a   Suyama, A ^a   Cologne, J B ^a   Akahoshi, M ^a   Yamada, M ^a   Suzuki, G ^a   Koyama, K ^a   Takahashi, N ^a   Kasagi, F ^a   Grant, E J ^a   Lagarde, F ^a   Hsu, W L ^a   Furukawa, K ^a   Ohishi, W ^a   Tatsukawa, Y ^a   Neriishi, K ^a   Takahashi, A I ^a   Ashizawa, K ^a   Hida, A ^a   Imaizumi, M ^a   Nagano, J ^a   Cullings, H M ^a   Katayama, H ^a   Ross, N P ^a   Kodama, K ^b   Shore, R E ^a   more..

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; AGE OF ONSET; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55249119306     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1392.1     Document Type: Article

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