No evidence for an increase in circulatory disease mortality in astronauts following space radiation exposures

Life Sciences in Space Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 53-56

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Hamada, Nobuyuki ^b   Little, Mark P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apollo missions; Astronauts; Cardiovascular disease; Circulatory disease; Galactic cosmic rays; Healthy worker effects; Space radiation

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MICROGRAVITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; VEIN DISEASE; AGED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTRONAUTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COSMIC RADIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPACE FLIGHT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84988380564     PISSN: 22145524     EISSN: 22145532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lssr.2016.08.002     Document Type: Note

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