ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
Association between occupational ionizing radiation exposure duration and the increased risk of dyslipidemia: evidence from a large group of radiation workers.
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- Association of radiation exposure and blood lipid derived indices with hypertension risk in radiation workers.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Associations between dietary factors and morbidity burden in occupational radiation workers: a cross-sectional study in Guangzhou, China.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
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Background: Although radiation workers' exposure levels consistently remained below established safety thresholds, accumulating evidence demonstrates that chronic low-dose ionizing radiation exposure may still pose significant health risks to humans. We aimed to explore the relationship between the years of low-dose radiation work and dyslipidemia. Methods: We collected occupational and physical examination data of 10,338 radiation workers from 1,200 workplaces during 2019-2020 in Guangdong Province, China. After controlling for social demographic and health behavior confounders, we used a mixed-effects model to assess the association of ionizing radiation exposure duration with blood lipid biomarkers as well as the prevalence of dyslipidemia. We further comprehensively evaluated the modifying effects of various demographic characteristics, health behavior factors, and air pollutant concentrations. Results: We found that participants with prolonged ionizing radiation exposure tended to have 8-40% higher levels of total cholesterol (TC) compared to those with < 10 years of exposure. The estimates were 9-23% for triglycerides (TG) and 5-26% for low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Similar disparities were observed for the prevalence of overall dyslipidemia, abnormal TC or TG, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and high Conclusion: These findings suggest a deleterious effect of prolonged ionizing radiation exposure on lipid metabolism, with certain groups of workers being particularly vulnerable.
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