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Schöllnberger, H. ; Ozasa, K.* ; Neff, F. ; Kaiser, J.C.

Cardiovascular disease mortality of a-bomb survivors and the healthy survivor selection effect.

Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 166, 320-323 (2015)
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The latest A-bomb survivor data for cardiovascular diseases are analysed to investigate whether in the first years after the bombings the baseline rates of proximal survivors were markedly different compared with those of the distal survivors. This phenomenon relates to a healthy survivor selection effect. This question is important for the decision whether to include or exclude the early years of follow-up when analysing the biological effects from acute low and high dose exposures following the nuclear weapons explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The present study shows that for cerebrovascular diseases and heart diseases the baseline rates are not significantly different in the first two decades of follow-up. Thus, for these two detrimental health outcomes, there is no need to exclude distal survivors and the first decades of follow-up time when investigating the shapes of the related dose-responses.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0144-8420
e-ISSN 1742-3406
Journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Quellenangaben Volume: 166, Issue: 1-4, Pages: 320-323 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publishing Place Oxford
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Radiation Protection (ISS)
Institute of Pathology (PATH)