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Association between Uranium Exposure and Thyroid Health: A National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Analysis and Ecological Study

Besides specific, incidental radiation exposure, which has been associated with increased thyroid cancer risk, the effects of exposure to background radiation from uranium, a naturally occurring, radioactive, and ubiquitous element, on the thyroid gland has not been widely studied. We therefore inve...

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Autores principales: van Gerwen, Maaike, Alpert, Naomi, Lieberman-Cribbin, Wil, Cooke, Peter, Ziadkhanpour, Kimia, Liu, Bian, Genden, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31979063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030712