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I V Podsonnaya1, G I Shumakher, V A Golovin
1Altai State Medical University, Department of Nervous Diseases with Neurology and Reflex Therapy, Regional War Veterans' Hospital, Barnaul, Russia.
Abstract:
Results obtained over 20-years of following 536 Chernobyl clean-up workers and 436 control subjects are presented. Dyscirculatory encephalopathy developed more frequently in persons exposed to radiation at age 30 years. As compared with the control group, workers were characterized by early onset of disease, faster progression, stable symptomatology for 5-6 years, and further progression of disease in the form of autonomic dysfunction, psycho-organic syndrome, and epilepsy. Major strokes were also more common in clean-up workers.
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