Does balneotherapy with low radon concentration in water influence the endocrine system? A controlled non-randomized pilot study

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-315

  Nagy, Katalin ^a   Berhés, István ^a   Kovács, Tibor ^b   Kávási, Norbert ^c   Somlai, János ^b   Bender, Tamás ^d  

^a Markhot Ferenc County Hospital   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c Social Organization for Radioecological Cleanliness   (Hungary)

^d Budai Irgalmasrendi Kórház ^*  (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONES; BEFORE AND AFTER; BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTIONS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS; PILOT STUDIES; POST TREATMENT; RADON CONCENTRATIONS; THERMAL WATERS; WILCOXON TEST;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; WATER CONTENT;

RADON;

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PRASTERONE; PROLACTIN; RADON; THYROTROPIN; HORMONE; WATER;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BALNEOTHERAPY; BATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; WATER TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TIME;

BALNEOLOGY; BATHS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADON; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 70349786999     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0222-3     Document Type: Article

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