Behavior and food consumption pattern of the population exposed in 1949–1962 to fallout from Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan
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Date
2011-03
Authors
Drozdovitch, Vladimir
Schonfeld, Sara
Akimzhanov, Kuat
Aldyngurov, Daulet
Land, Charles E.
Luckyanov, Nickolas
Mabuchi, Kiyohiko
Potischman, Nancy
J. Schwerin, Michael J.
Semenova, Yulia
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Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
Abstract
The relationship between radiation exposure from nuclear weapons testing fallout and thyroid disease in a group of 2,994 subjects has been the subject of study by the US National Cancer Institute. In that study, radiation doses to the thyroid were estimated for residents of villages in Kazakhstan possibly exposed to deposition of radioactive fallout from nuclear testing conducted by the Soviet Union at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in Kazakhstan between 1949 and 1962. The study subjects included individuals of both Kazakh and Russian origin who were exposed during childhood and adolescence. An initial dose reconstruction used for the risk analysis of Land et al. (Radiat Res 169:373-383, 2008) was based on individual information collected from basic questionnaires administered to the study population in 1998. However, because data on several key questions for accurately estimating doses were not obtained from the 1998 questionnaires, it was decided to conduct a second data collection campaign in 2007. Due to the many years elapsed since exposure, a well-developed strategy was necessary to encourage accurate memory recall.
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Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, Semipalatinsk nuclear, Research Subject Categories::MEDICINE
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The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at Radiat Environ Biophys DOI 10.1007/s00411-010-0334-9