137Cesium exposure and spirometry measures in Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear incident

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 720-725

  Svendsen, Erik R ^a   Kolpakov, Igor E ^b   Stepanova, Yevgenia I ^b   Vdovenko, Vitaliy Y ^b   Naboka, Maryna V ^c   Mousseau, Timothy A ^a   Mohr, Lawrence C ^d   Hoel, David G ^d   Karmaus, Wilfried J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STATE INSTITUTION NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cesium; Chernobyl; Children; Environmental; Epidemiology; Ionizing radiation; Pulmonary; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; CESIUM;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMAL EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPIROMETRY; UKRAINE; LUNG INJURY; POLLUTANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION INJURY; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG INJURY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPIROMETRY; UKRAINE;

EID: 77951742699     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901412     Document Type: Article

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