Apollo lunar astronauts show higher cardiovascular disease mortality: Possible deep space radiation effects on the vascular endothelium

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Delp, Michael D ^a   Charvat, Jacqueline M ^b   Limoli, Charles L ^c   Globus, Ruth K ^d   Ghosh, Payal ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOON; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SPACE FLIGHT; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; ASTRONAUTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COSMIC RADIATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOON; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 84980034352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29901     Document Type: Article

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