{"id":1407,"date":"2010-01-15T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/japanese-study-links-radiation-to-cardiovascular-disease-deaths\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:05","slug":"japanese-study-links-radiation-to-cardiovascular-disease-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/15\/japanese-study-links-radiation-to-cardiovascular-disease-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Study Links Radiation to Cardiovascular Disease Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1950 and 2003 survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had an increased risk of stroke and heart disease, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/doi\/10.1136\/bmj.b5349\">a new analysis published in <em>BMJ<\/em><\/a><em><\/em>. \u00a0 Japanese researchers estimated a 9% increased risk of stroke per gray and a 14% increased risk of heart disease per gray. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/doi\/10.1136\/bmj.b4326\">An accompanying editorial<\/a> notes that the study\u00a0\u201cadds to\u00a0a growing body of evidence suggesting an association between cardiovascular disease and exposure to low-moderate levels of radiation, as well as the well known (and mechanistically well understood) association at high doses.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1950 and 2003 survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had an increased risk of stroke and heart disease, according to a new analysis published in BMJ. \u00a0 Japanese researchers estimated a 9% increased risk of stroke per gray and a 14% increased risk of heart disease per gray. An accompanying editorial notes that the study\u00a0\u201cadds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}