About one in five suffered some ill effect.
Of course, the fact that the health impact of Chernobyl is far less than people tend to believe should not detract from the tragedy: at least 43 people died as a direct consequence of the disaster and up to 4,000 others exposed in 1986 might yet exhibit some ill effect.
More worrying still are those people self-diagnosing for PTSD "based on having some lingering ill effects of a past life event, even if its severity would not come close to what would be required for a formal diagnosis".
Water can look and taste normal and still be unsafe, and some of the ill effects of tainted water can take years to show up.
Since an intensification of rainfall is one of the most confident predictions scientists make about global warming, proof that this pattern applies worldwide would suggest that improved groundwater availability may help us offset some of the ill effects of climate change.
In addition, mTOR signaling during DM may result in cardiac hypertrophy, promote some of the ill effects of hyperleptinemia, and further diabetic retinopathy [ 109] given the ability of mTOR to promote angiogenesis [ 1, 110].
We and other research groups have shown that betaine diet supplementation has therapeutic potential to abrogate some of the ill effects of ethanol consumption [3,6,8,9,11,12,15]; including an ability to restore a normal SAM:SAH ratio [3,6,8,9] to protect the liver from ethanol-induced fatty infiltration [3,8], and prevent accumulation of isoaspartate damage in cytosolic proteins [9].
Many researchers believe that the complex interplay of the body's wired-in responses to stress and the shaping of those responses by the environment may hold important clues to why some people suffer lasting ill effects from traumatic events.
A recent report in The Times by Peter Lattman and Susanne Craig shows that some of the predicted ill effects of the JOBS Act — for Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups — are now coming to pass.
