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In contrast, recent studies in acutely exposed Japanese atomic bomb survivors showed a significantly increased risk for normal-tension glaucoma (NTG, a subtype of primary open-angle glaucoma) at much lower dose, but such information is not available in any other cohorts. We therefore set out to evaluate the incidence of risk for primary glaucoma and its subtypes in a Russian cohort of Mayak Production Association nuclear workers who received chronic radiation exposure over many years. Of these, we found a significantly increased relative risk (RR) of NTG incidence (RR = 1.88 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.01, 3.51; p = 0.047) in workers exposed to gamma rays at cumulative brain absorbed dose above &gt;1 Gy. We observed the linear relationship between NTG incidence and brain absorbed gamma dose with an excess relative risk per unit brain absorbed dose of 0.53 (95% CI: 0.01, 1.68; p &lt; 0.05), but not for any other subtypes nor for total primary glaucoma. Such elevated risk of radiogenic NTG incidence, if confirmed in other cohorts, has significant implications for normal tissue complications in radiotherapy patients receiving ocular radiation exposure, and for ocular radiation protection in radiation workers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers14030602","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,25]],"date-time":"2022-01-25T20:44:33Z","timestamp":1643143473000},"page":"602","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["The Incidence Risk for Primary Glaucoma and Its Subtypes following Chronic Exposure to Ionizing Radiation in the Russian Cohort of Mayak Nuclear Workers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6954-2674","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tamara V.","family":"Azizova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Department, Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI), 456780 Ozyorsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Evgeny V.","family":"Bragin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Department, Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI), 456780 Ozyorsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maria V.","family":"Bannikova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Department, Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI), 456780 Ozyorsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2518-6131","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nobuyuki","family":"Hamada","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Radiation Safety Unit, Biology and Environmental Chemistry Division, Sustainable System Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo 201-8511, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Evgeniya S.","family":"Grigoryeva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinical Department, Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI), 456780 Ozyorsk, Russia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (WHO) (1993). 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