Fallout from nuclear tests: health effects in Kazakhstan
Fallout from nuclear tests: health effects in Kazakhstan
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核试验的后果：哈萨克斯坦的健康影响
DOI：
10.1007/s00411-001-0136-1
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
B. Gusev
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作者：
B. Grosche;C. Land;S. Bauer;L. M. Pivina;Z. Abylkassimova;B. Gusev
Accepted: 13 December 2001/Published online: 9 March 2002© Springer-Verlag 2002 in 1963, and another 10,000 residents of 6 less exposed settlements of the Kokpektinsky rayon located several hundreds of kilometers east/south-east of the Semipalatinsk test site. Annual examinations of almost the entire population of these settlements were started regularly in 1964. Recruitment for the study began with patients of local ambulatory clinics and was extended until the desired numbers had been achieved. Inclusion criteria were permanent residence in the settlement during the period of atmospheric nuclear testing and “good health”, defined as absence of brucellosis or tuberculosis, at the beginning of follow-up in 1965. The distribution of the cohort by exposure group, sex, and ethnic group, is given in Table 1. Certification of follow-up information was obtained by kolkhoz documentation (‘khozyaistvennye knigi’) and by visiting each family (‘podbornye obkhody’). Confirmation of residential histories and migration in these settlements during the period 1960–1990 is based on recently declassified official documents, which were certified each year by the secretary of the local soviet (‘sel’sovet’). In the 10 years since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, one of the authors (BIG) and his co-workers at KRIRME continued the follow-up in collaboration with the local staff in the settlements. Archival data for the two study groups as established in 1965, including residents of exposed and less exposed settlements as of 31 December 1960, were used in the death certificate study.
