The Chernobyl accident: predicting cardio-vascular disease in the ex-workers.
This paper describes a computer package that has been used to predict the likelihood of the onset of cardiovascular diseases in these patients who were former workers (liquidators) on the Chernobyl site in the Ukraine, Chernobyl being the place where the Nuclear Power Station was destroyed when the atomic reactor got out of control and spread radiation over a very wide area both on the ground and into the atmosphere. The programme predicts the future morbidity in those patients with an accuracy of 90%.
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Department of Medical Informatics, UMIST, Manchester, UK.
Lugovkina
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D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release / Q000401:mortality; D012984:Software; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology