Chronic low-dose exposure in the Techa River Cohort: Risk of mortality from circulatory diseases

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-57

  Krestinina, Lyudmila Yurievna ^a   Epifanova, Svetlana ^a   Silkin, Stanislav ^a   Mikryukova, Lyudmila ^a   Degteva, Marina ^a   Shagina, Natalia ^a   Akleyev, Alexander ^a  

^a URALS RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Circulatory diseases; Excess relative risk; Mortality; Techa River Cohort

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BEST FIT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXCESS RELATIVE RISKS; INTERNAL EXPOSURE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LAG PERIOD; LOW-DOSE EXPOSURES; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; MORTALITY RISK; MUSCLE TISSUES; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN URALS; TECHA RIVER;

CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; FISSION PRODUCTS; MUSCLE; RIVERS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CESIUM; STRONTIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MUSCLE; RADIATION DOSE; RISK; RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YOUNG ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK; RIVERS; RUSSIA; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874383061     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-012-0438-5     Document Type: Article

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