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Prevalence of adult-onset multifactorial disease among offspring of atomic bomb survivors.
Radiation research - 1 Oct 2008
Fujiwara S, Suyama A, Cologne J B, Akahoshi M, Yamada M, Suzuki G, Koyama K, Takahashi N, Kasagi E, Grant E J, Lagarde E, Hsu W L, Furukawa K, Ohishi W, Tatsukawa Y, Neriishi K, Takahashi I, Ashizawa K, Hida A, Imaizumi M, Nagano J, Cullings H M, Katayama H, Ross N P, Kodama K, Shore R E
Abstract excerpt
The first study to examine whether parental radiation exposure leads to increased heritable risk of common adult-onset multifactorial diseases (i.e., hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, ischemic heart disease, and stroke) was conducted among 11,951 participants in the clinical examination program out of a potential of 24,673 mail survey subjects who were offspring of survivors born from May...
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