Nationwide Increase in Complex Congenital Heart Diseases After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.

ABSTRACT: Background After the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, an increase in the incidence of congenital heart disease ( CHD s) in the neighboring countries was reported. In 2011, Japan experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear accidents at Fukushima. However, a nationwide study of their effects has not been conducted yet. Methods and Results We used data covering the period between 2007 and 2014 from the annual surveys conducted by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, which included almost all of the operations pertaining to 46 types of CHD s in Japan. CHD s were divided into 2 groups based on complexity, the time of occurrence during heart development, and age at operation. We estimated the change in the number of the operations per 100 000 live births between pre-

SUBMITTER: Murase K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6475040 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature