The United Nations confirms medical radiation is exposed to the main source of radiation for the human body

The United Nations confirms medical radiation is exposed to the main source of radiation for the human body
The United Nations, August 18 (Xinhuanet) the atom radiation of the United Nations influences the scientific committee to deliver the report to point out a few days ago, medical radiation is that the mankind is exposed to the main source of ionization radiation.
The atom radiation of the United Nations influences this report that the scientific committee releases on the 17th to claim, suffer in nature or various radiation that human factor lead to the fact in in whole world population, 20 comes from medical radiation; In the radiation that all human factors cause, the proportion accounted for in medical radiation is up to 98.
The investigation reveals, from 1997 to 10 years of 2007, the whole world probably carries on X-ray examination 36 hundred million times every year. This data than at 10 year such as each increase above 40.
Say, the majority is in the country with higher health care level to produce the medical examination of radiation at present, but with the progress and employing extensively of technology, no matter how health care level is in the countries all over the world, medical radiation will increase continuously. In some developed countries, the substantial increase of medical radiation means it has already replaced and radiated the source naturally, become the human body's main route to exposed to radiation.
The report points out, it causes destroying to the tissue seriously to suffer radiation of high strength, and will increase the health risk by the radiation of lower intensity for a long time.
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