Potential increased risk of ischemic heart disease mortality with significant dose fractionation in the Canadian Fluoroscopy cohort study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 120-131

  Zablotska, Lydia B ^a   Little, Mark P ^b   Cornett, R Jack ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cardiovascular disease; dose fractionation; ionizing radiation; ischemic heart disease; noncancer diseases; radiation dose response relationship

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FRACTIONATION; MORTALITY; RADIATION BALANCE; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEATH; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TUBERCULOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DOSE FRACTIONATION; IONIZING RADIATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NONCANCER DISEASES; RADIATION DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

CANADA;

EID: 84891361307     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt244     Document Type: Article

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