A study of the outcome of pregnancy in women exposed to the atomic bomb blast in Nagasaki

✍ Scribed by Yamazaki, James N. ;Wright, Stanley W. ;Wright, Phyllis M.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1954
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 366 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0095-9898
• DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1030430414

✦ Synopsis

This study was conducted in Nagasaki during the first half of 1951. A list was made of all wonien who, at the time of the explosion, were of childbearirig age (17 to 50 years of age on the basis of pregnancy records of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission Genetics program) and were residing in Nagasaki. From a total of 1774 women of childbearing age who survived within the 2000-meter area, only 98 women were found to have been pregnant on August 9, 1945. Conception was considered to have occurred 2 weeks after the last normal menstrual period. This group of irradiated mothers was further divided into (1) those mothers who had one or more "major" diagnostic signs of radiation injury, i.e., epilation, purpura and petechiae, and oropharyngeal lesions, and (2) those who had no evidence of radiation disease, or only