SynthesisRadiation and environmental biophysics2013
Occupational exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation and cataract development: a systematic literature review and perspectives on future studies.
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- Eye lens opacities and cataracts among physicians and healthcare workers occupationally exposed to radiation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Saudi medical journal · 2022Pooled it
- Risk of cataract in health care workers exposed to ionizing radiation: a systematic review.La Medicina del lavoro · 2020Pooled it
- Diagnostic Radiology Services and Occupational Radiation Anxiety in Kazakhstan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- CORR Insights®: Is Ocular Safety in Orthopaedics Overlooked? A Systematic Review of Annual Ocular Radiation Exposure and Protective Measures.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2024Article
- Occupational exposures and age-related cataract: A review.Archives of environmental & occupational health · 2024Review
- RADIATION DOSE OF THE EYE LENS IN CT EXAMINATIONS OF THE BRAIN IN CLINICAL PRACTICE-THE EFFECT OF RADIOGRAPHER TRAINING TO OPTIMISE GANTRY TILT AND SCAN LENGTH.Radiation protection dosimetry · 2023Article
- Human γS-Crystallin Resists Unfolding Despite Extensive Chemical Modification from Exposure to Ionizing Radiation.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2022Article
- Radiation induced cataracts in interventionalists occupationally exposed to ionising radiation.SA journal of radiology · 2022Article
- Health effects of radioactive contaminated dust in the aftermath of potential nuclear accident in Ukraine.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Operator's eye lens dose in computed tomography-guided interventions.European radiology · 2021Article
- Low- and moderate-dose non-cancer effects of ionizing radiation in directly exposed individuals, especially circulatory and ocular diseases: a review of the epidemiology.International journal of radiation biology · 2021Review
- Analysis of Cataract in Relationship to Occupational Radiation Dose Accounting for Dosimetric Uncertainties in a Cohort of U.S. Radiologic Technologists.Radiation research · 2020Article
- Effects of chronic low-dose radiation on cataract prevalence and characterization in wild boar (Sus scrofa) from Fukushima, Japan.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Occupational radiation exposure and excess additive risk of cataract incidence in a cohort of US radiologic technologists.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Article
- Inverse dose-rate effect of ionising radiation on residual 53BP1 foci in the eye lens.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Prevalence of Lens Opacity in Interventional Cardiologists and Professional Working in the Hemodynamics in Brazil.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2019Article
- Occupational radiation exposure and risk of cataract incidence in a cohort of US radiologic technologists.European journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- The clinical features of radiation cataract in patients with ocular adnexal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2018Article
- Age-related cataracts: Role of unfolded protein response, CaProgress in retinal and eye research · 2017Review
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Abstract
Ionizing radiation is a well-known but little understood risk factor for lens opacities. Until recently, cataract development was considered to be a deterministic effect occurring at lens doses exceeding a threshold of 5-8 Gy. Substantial uncertainty about the level and the existence of a threshold subsists. The International Commission on Radiation Protection recently revised it to 0.5 Gy. Based on a systematic literature review of epidemiological studies on exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation and the occurrence of lens opacities, a list of criteria for new epidemiological studies was compiled, and a list of potential study populations was reviewed. Among 24 publications finally identified, six report analyses of acute exposures in atomic bomb survivors and Chernobyl liquidators, and the others report analyses of protracted exposures in occupationally, medically or accidentally exposed populations. Three studies investigated a dose threshold: in atomic bomb survivors, the best estimates were 1 Sv (95 % CI <0-0.8 Sv) regarding lensectomies; in survivors exposed as children, 0.6 Sv (90 % CI <0.0-1.2 Sv) for cortical cataract prevalence and 0.7 Sv (90 % CI 0.0-2.8 Sv) for posterior subcapsular cataract; and in Chernobyl liquidators, 0.34 Sv (95 % CI 0.19-0.68 Sv) for stage 1 cataract. Current studies are heterogeneous and inconclusive regarding the dose-response relationship. Protracted exposures and high lens doses occur in several occupational groups, for instance, in physicians performing fluoroscopy-guided interventional procedures, and in accidentally exposed populations. New studies with a good retrospective exposure assessment are feasible and should be initiated.
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