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Health survey of atomic bomb survivors in South Korea

Abstract

Health survey was undertaken among Korea survivors exposed to atomic bomb in Japan who now reside in South Korea. Of 232 A-bomb survivors on whom raditation exposure information was available, all were exposed to atomic bomb in Hiroshima. According to the distance from the hypocenter, one (0.4 %) A-bomb survior was exposed at < 1,000 m, 60 (25.9 %) at 1,000 - 2,000 m, 124 (53.4 %) at > 2,000 - 3,000 m, and 43 (18.5 %) at < 3,000 m. In the four remaining, it was unknown. According to age, 14.7 % were in their forties, 33.6 % in their fifties, 32.6 % in their sixties, 16.0 % in their severties, and 3.1 % in their eighties, indicating the tendency for the aging of older persons. Common subjective symptoms were lumbar pain and joint pain, which seemed atributable to osteoarthritis. Other diseases included hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sequelae of cerebral stroke, eczema, and mycosis. (Namekawa, K.).
Publication Date:
May 01, 1988
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
JPN-89-003226; EDB-89-042682
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Hiroshima Igaku; (Japan); Journal Volume: 41:5
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; A-BOMB SURVIVORS; MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS; DISTANCE; HIROSHIMA; HYPERTENSION; PAIN; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES; SKELETAL DISEASES; VASCULAR DISEASES; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; HUMAN POPULATIONS; JAPAN; POPULATIONS; SYMPTOMS; 560151* - Radiation Effects on Animals- Man
OSTI ID:
6496951
Research Organizations:
Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital (Japan)
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: HIRGA
Submitting Site:
JPN
Size:
Pages: 864-866
Announcement Date:
Sep 01, 1988

Citation Formats

Arita, Ken-ichi, Iwamori, Hiroshi, Kishi, Akihiro, and Koutoku, Michiya. Health survey of atomic bomb survivors in South Korea. Japan: N. p., 1988. Web.
Arita, Ken-ichi, Iwamori, Hiroshi, Kishi, Akihiro, &amp; Koutoku, Michiya. Health survey of atomic bomb survivors in South Korea. Japan.
Arita, Ken-ichi, Iwamori, Hiroshi, Kishi, Akihiro, and Koutoku, Michiya. 1988. "Health survey of atomic bomb survivors in South Korea." Japan.
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title = {Health survey of atomic bomb survivors in South Korea}
author = {Arita, Ken-ichi, Iwamori, Hiroshi, Kishi, Akihiro, and Koutoku, Michiya}
abstractNote = {Health survey was undertaken among Korea survivors exposed to atomic bomb in Japan who now reside in South Korea. Of 232 A-bomb survivors on whom raditation exposure information was available, all were exposed to atomic bomb in Hiroshima. According to the distance from the hypocenter, one (0.4 %) A-bomb survior was exposed at < 1,000 m, 60 (25.9 %) at 1,000 - 2,000 m, 124 (53.4 %) at > 2,000 - 3,000 m, and 43 (18.5 %) at < 3,000 m. In the four remaining, it was unknown. According to age, 14.7 % were in their forties, 33.6 % in their fifties, 32.6 % in their sixties, 16.0 % in their severties, and 3.1 % in their eighties, indicating the tendency for the aging of older persons. Common subjective symptoms were lumbar pain and joint pain, which seemed atributable to osteoarthritis. Other diseases included hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sequelae of cerebral stroke, eczema, and mycosis. (Namekawa, K.).}
journal = []
volume = {41:5}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Japan}
year = {1988}
month = {May}
}