| Titre : | Childhood Leukemia in Relation to Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields in the Vicinity of TV and Radio Broadcast Transmitters. (2008) |
| Auteurs : | Hiltrud MERZENICH ; Sabrina BENNACK ; Maria BLETTNER ; BRIIGGEMEYER (Hauke) : DEU. Lower Saxony Water Management. Coastal Defense and Nature Conservation Agency. Hildesheim. ; Johannes Philipp ; Sven SCHMIEDEL ; Joachim SCHUZ ; Institute of Medical Biostatistics. Epidemiology and Informatics. University Mainz. Mainz. DEU |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | American journal of epidemiology (vol. 168, n° 10, 2008) |
| Pagination : | 1169-1178 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Leucémie ; Enfant ; Radio ; Fréquence ; Magnétisme ; Rayonnement ; Télévision ; Epidémiologie ; Homme ; Cancer |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS rR0xHE9J. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. A case-control study of radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) and childhood leukemia was conducted in West Germany. The study region included municipalities near high-power radio and TV broadcast towers, including 16 amplitude-modulated and 8 frequency-modulated transmitters. Cases were aged 0-14 years, were diagnosed with leukemia between 1984 and 2003, and were registered at the German Childhood Cancer Registry. Three age-gender-and transmitter-area-matched controls per case were drawn randomly from population registries. The analysis included 1,959 cases and 5,848 controls. Individual exposure to RF-EMFs 1 year before diagnosis was estimated with a field strength prediction program. Considering total RF-EMFs, the odds ratio derived from conditional logistic regression analysis for all types of leukemia was 0.86 (95% confidence interval : 0.67,1.11) when upper (>95%/0.701 V/m) and lower (<90%/0.504 V/m) quantiles of the RF-EMF distribution were compared. An analysis of amplitude-modulated and frequency-modulated transmitters separately did not show increased risks of leukemia. The odds ratio for all types of leukemia was 1.04 (95% confidence interval : 0.65,1.67) among children living within 2 km of the nearest broadcast transmitter compared with those living at a distance of 10-<15 km. The data did not show any elevated risks of childhood leukemia associated with RF-EMFs. |
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