Effect of radiation on age at menopause among atomic bomb survivors

Radiation Research

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 787-795

  Sakata, Ritsu ^a   Shimizu, Yukiko ^a   Soda, Midori ^a   Yamada, Michiko ^a   Hsu, Wan Ling ^a   Hayashi, Mikiko ^a   Ozasa, Kotaro ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY MENOPAUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENOPAUSE, PREMATURE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; OVARY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 82955239887     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2676.1     Document Type: Article

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