Table 1.

Medical conditions caused by different sources of low-dose/dose rate IR.

Radiation Source	Effects	References
Medical radiation (radiographs, computed tomography scans)	Cardiovascular disease, premature aging, inflammation, and neurodegenerative diseases	[16,17,21]
Natural background radiation	Inflammation, immunosenescence, thyroid cancer, and childhood leukemia	[41,42] [43,44]
Nuclear disasters	“Chernobyl AIDS,” CNS damage, premature aging, atherosclerosis, and senile encephalopathy	[28,29,30] [31,32]