Table 3.

Ongoing studies on interventional cardiologists

Main funding	NIH and NCI	Italian CNR National Research Council-IFC, Institute of Clinical Physiology
Scientific Societies endorsement	Multispecialty Occupational Health Group	Italian Society of Invasive Cardiology (GISE)
Enrolled population	· 44,000 fluoroscopists (interventional cardiologists, radiologists, neuroradiologists) · 42,000 non-interventional radiologists · 101,000 non-exposed physicians	· 500 exposed interventional cardiologists (nurses, technicians) · 500 non exposed clinical cardiologists (nurses, technicians)
Endpoint	Epidemiological clinical endpoints (cancer, cataract, vascular events)	Surrogate biomarkers of genetic, vascular, reproductive, cognitive effect