Radiation exposure from imaging common in kids

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CHICAGO | BY JULIE STEENHUYSEN

Children and teens often get diagnostic tests that expose them to radiation, increasing the risk of cancer later in life, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

“In just a three-year span, 42.5 percent of kids got some form of ionizing radiation from a diagnostic medical procedure,” said Dr. Adam Dorfman, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, whose study appears in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

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