Measures of thyroid function among Belarusian children and adolescents exposed to iodine-131 from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 865-871

  Ostroumova, Evgenia ^a   Rozhko, Alexander ^b   Hatch, Maureen ^a   Furukawa, Kyoji ^c   Polyanskaya, Olga ^b   McConnell, Robert J ^d   Nadyrov, Eldar ^b   Petrenko, Sergey ^e   Romanov, George ^b   Yauseyenka, Vasilina ^b   Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^a   Minenko, Viktor ^f   Prokopovich, Alexander ^b   Savasteeva, Irina ^b   Zablotska, Lydia B ^g   Mabuchi, Kiyohiko ^a   Brenner, Alina V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Republican Research Center for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology   (Belarus)

^c RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e International Sakharov Environmental University   (Belarus)

^f BELARUSIAN MEDICAL ACADEMY OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Belarus)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antithyroid antibodies; Autoimmune thyroiditis; Chernobyl; Chornobyl; Dose response; Hyperthyroidism; Hypothyroidism; Radioiodine; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GOITER; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; THYROID DISEASE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84879560203     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205783     Document Type: Article

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