title: On the biological effects of cosmic rays: epidemiological studies.
abstract: Determining the biological effects of cosmic rays and other natural ionizing radiations, could possibly help us in shedding light on the more general problem of low-dose ionizing-radiation effects.  In this work we provide a survey of the most recent studies available on epidemiological methods: we discuss the main difficulties in using these methods, as well as the discrepancies in their results.
authors.affiliation: IFSI-CNR, Universita "La Sapienza", Roma, Italia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Signorini
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Conforto
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003359:Cosmic Radiation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D015340:Epidemiologic Research Design; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D006801:Humans; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011830:Radiation Effects; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing; D011853:Radiobiology; D012062:Relative Biological Effectiveness