The author analysed files of 101 patients suffered from chronic radiation sickness due to chronic occupational mainly external radiation (dose of 98 to 947 cGy). Through represented clinical diagnoses, the author studied age of primary diagnosis of ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases in general and of individual entities, arterial hypertension, relationships between age at the diagnosis and total radiation dose, dose rate. The article presents comparative data on dose loads, time of various cardiovascular diseases diagnosis in accordance with circulatory disorders during chronic radiation sickness.
V G Leliuk. Periods of cardiovascular diseases development in individuals with chronic radiation sickness caused mainly by external uniform radiation]. Meditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia. 2005(3):25-31
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