Health consequences of the Chornobyl accident.

Somatic symptoms in women 11 years after the Chornobyl accident: prevalence and risk factors.

Exposure to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion resulted in widespread, persistent somatic complaints, but little is known about the nature and risk factors for these conditions. This study compares the health reports of 300 women evacuated to Kyiv from the contamination zone around the plant and 300 controls with a child in the same homeroom as the evacuees in 1997. The interview addre...

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Foreword to the special issue "The Chornobyl Nuclear Accident: Thirty Years After".

Dear Reader! The 2016 Special Issue of Experimental Oncology is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, medical and biological consequences of which still have a negative impact on the health of the population of Ukraine and other affected countries. In the XX century it became apparent that anthropogenic activities lead to environmental pollution, causing the man-made envi...

Determinants of participation in a longitudinal two-stage study of the health consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident

BACKGROUND The determinants of participation in long-term follow-up studies of disasters have rarely been delineated. Even less is known from studies of events that occurred in eastern Europe. We examined the factors associated with participation in a longitudinal two-stage study conducted in Kyiv following the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident. METHODS Six hundred child-mother dyad...

Stress and well-being in mothers of young children 11 years after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident.

BACKGROUND This paper examines the association between exposure to the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion and the psychological and physical well-being of mothers with young children. The study also examines whether exposure to Chornobyl increased the vulnerability of mothers to subsequent economic and social stress, and thus represents a unique test of the stress-vulnerability model in a ...