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Epidemiology of stroke and transient ischemic attacks in the population of the territories adjacent to the former Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan
Radiat Environ Biophys. 2021 Nov 25. doi: 10.1007/s00411-021-00955-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe issue of radiation exposure as a potential cause of cerebrovascular disease raises many concerns. The aim of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of stroke and transient ischemic attacks (TIA) along with the associated risk factors among the population of East Kazakhstan exposed to ionising radiation from the former Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS) in comparison with the unexposed population of the same region. This 5-year retrospective cross-sectional study included the data on 10,970 patients, of...
Source: Radiation and Environmental Biophysics - November 25, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Yuliya Semenova Idaliya Rakhimova Tair Nurpeissov Galiya Alikeyeva Talgat Khaibullin Vitalii Kovalchuk Yelena Ainabekova Oksana Yurkovskaya Natalya Glushkova Lyudmila Pivina Antonio Sarria-Santamera Zhanar Abdrakhmanova Ayan Abdrakhmanov Source Type: research