The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 697-707

  Scherb, Hagen ^a   Voigt, Kristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb test; Chernobyl; Distance trend analysis; Ecological study; Environmental health; Environmetrics; Logistic regression; Low level ionizing radiation; Male proportion; Nuclear facility; Radiation epidemiology; Radiation induced genetic effect; Sex ratio; Spatial temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IONIZATION; LOGISTICS; MUTAGENICITY; NUCLEAR POWER; POWER PLANT; RADIATION BALANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTANT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK; SEX RATIO; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

ASIA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955816769     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-011-0462-z     Document Type: Article

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