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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2024. Vol. 69. № 3
DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2024-69-3-53-56
A.R. Tukov, I.L. Shafranskii, A.N. Koterov,
M.N. Ziyatdinov, O.N. Prokhorova, A.M. Mikhaylenko
Evaluation of the Radiation Risk of Death from Cardiovascular Diseases among the Liquidators Involved in the Cleaning up of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident – Workers in the Nuclear Industry Sector
A.I. Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia
Contact person: Alexander Romanovich Tukov, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ABSTRACT
Background: Assessment of the risk of death from circulatory system diseases due to radiation exposure in liquidators of the Chernobyl accident consequences (hereinafter referred to as liquidators) using data on doses of various types of exposure.
Material and methods: The work used the information base of the Industry Register of persons exposed to radiation as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (hereinafter referred to as the register), nuclear industry workers. The radiation risk assessment study included men - 12,706 liquidators who had data on external emergency radiation doses when working in the 30 km Chernobyl NPP zone, 1,327 of them had data on occupational radiation doses. Poisson regression was chosen as the statistical model of risk.
The study covers the period from 1987 to 2021. During the observation period, the register accumulated 304,023 person/years. The majority of the register in 1986 was made up of men – 84.7 %, women – 15.3 %.
Results: When data on doses of different types of radiation are used to calculate doses, different results of excess relative risk are obtained. Only the total radiation dose (occupational, emergency, medical, natural) can provide correct results for calculating the radiation risk of death from radiation-induced diseases.
Conclusion: The prospect of research should be considered to be filling the information base of the Industry Register with data on doses of all types of radiation.
Keywords: Chernobyl accident, liquidators, circulatory diseases, mortality, radiation risk, nuclear industry
For citation: Tukov AR, Shafransky IL, Koterov AN, Ziyatdinov MN, Prokhorova ON, Mikhaylenko AM. Evaluation of the Radiation Risk of Death from Cardiovascular Diseases among the Liquidators Involved in the Cleaning up of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident – Workers in the Nuclear Industry Sector. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2024;69(3):53–56. (In Russian). DOI:10.33266/1024-6177-2024-69-3-53-56
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Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Financing. The study had no sponsorship.
Contribution. Article was prepared with equal participation of the authors.
Article received: 20.01.2024. Accepted for publication: 27.02.2024.