Low-dose ionizing radiation exposure and risk of leukemia: results from 1950-1995 Chinese medical X-ray workers' cohort study and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been well-established that acute radiation exposures increase the risk of leukemia. However, it is still unknown whether these leukemia risk estimates could be extrapolated to occupational populations who receive repeated low-dose radiation exposure. The purpose of this study was to estimate quantified associations between low-dose radiation exposures and leukemia.

Methods

The Chinese medical X-ray worker study (CMXW) included 27,011 medical X-ray workers employed at major hospitals in 24 provinces in China from 1950 to 1980, and a control population of 25,782 physicians matched by hospital, who were unexposed to X-ray equipment. Poisson regression models were used to estimate the excess relative risk (ERR) and excess absolute risk (EAR) for the incidence o

SUBMITTER: Gu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11256586 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature