Figure 3From: The American College of Radiology white paper on radiation dose in medicine:deep impact on the practice of cardiovascular imagingRisk stratified according to age and gender. The risk is 37% higher in women than in men, and 4-fold higher in children <1 year than in adults. The risk is reduced by one-half in elderly (>80 years). Redrawn and modified from ref. 7, on the basis of novel estimates of BEIR VII (ref. 21).Back to article page