. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Radiat Res. 2013 Apr 5;179(5):597–609. doi: 10.1667/RR3153.1

TABLE 7.

Thyroid Doses from ¹³¹I Intakes Broken Down According to Various Groupings of the Belarusian Cohort Members

		Thyroid doses (Gy)
Parameter	N	Mean	Median
Place of residence at the time of the accident
Gomel Oblast	8,968	0.70	0.32
Mogilev Oblast	922	0.24	0.11
Minsk City	1,503	0.11	0.028
Others	339	0.20	0.038
Type of settlement of residence
Rural	6,558	0.77	0.36
Urban	5,174	0.29	0.11
Gender
Male	5,693	0.63	0.26
Female	6,039	0.53	0.21
Pathway of exposure
Inhalation of ¹³¹I	11,730^a	0.072	0.010
Intake of ¹³¹I in milk	10,921	0.41	0.15
Intake of ¹³¹I in milk products	8,504	0.087	0.027
Intake of ¹³¹I in leafy vegetables	7,946	0.081	0.018
Entire cohort	11,732	0.58	0.23

Two cohort members did not have inhalation intake as they resided at non-contaminated from the Chernobyl fallout areas outside Belarus at the time of the accident and returned to Belarus after ¹³¹I deposition finished.