Increased mortality in amateur dasio operators
dinsdag, 07 april 2015 - Categorie: Onderzoeken
Bron: aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/1/50.abstract
aug. 1986
Iets uit de oude doos, maar wel relevant omdat er toen nog geen mobiele communicatie was, ofwel geen andere stralingsbelasting.
American Jpurnal of Epidemiology
Oxford JournalsMedicine & Health American Journal of Epidemiology Volume 127, Issue 1Pp. 50-54
INCREASED MORTALITY IN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS DUE TO LYMPHATIC AND HEMATOPOIETIC MALIGNANCIES
SAMUEL MILHAM JR.1
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1Epidemiology Section LP-15 Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Olympia, WA 98504
Received August 18, 1986.
Revision received April 13, 1987.
Abstract
To search for potentially carcinogenic effects of electromagnetic field exposures, the author conducted a population-based study of mortality in US amateur radio operators. Ascertainment of Washington State and California amateur radio operators (67,829 persons) was done through the 1984 US Federal Communications Commission Amateur Radio Station and/or Operator License file. A total of 2,485 deaths were located for the period from January 1,1979 through December 31, 1984, in a population of amateur radio operators which accumulated 232,499 person-years at risk. The all-cause standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was 71, but a statistically significant increased mortality was seen for cancers of the other lymphatic tissues (SMR = 162), a rubric which includes multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. The all-leukemia standardized mortality ratio was slightly, but nonsignificantly, elevated (SMR = 124). However, mortality due to acute myeloid leukemia was significantly elevated (SMR = 176).
Key words
electromagnetics leukemia myelocytic lymphoma multiple myeloma radio
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