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Systematic review on the health effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phone base stationsMartin Röösli
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Socinstrasse 59, Basel, CH 4002, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 88:887-896F. 2010..to review and evaluate the recent literature on the health effects of exposure to mobile phone base station (MPBS) radiation...
Wireless communication fields and non-specific symptoms of ill health: a literature reviewMartin Röösli
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Wien Med Wochenschr 161:240-50. 2011..Due to the widespread use of wireless communication technologies potential adverse health effects would have major public health consequences...
Extremely low frequency magnetic field measurements in buildings with transformer stations in SwitzerlandMartin Röösli
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Sci Total Environ 409:3364-9. 2011..Such an approach considerably reduces effort for exposure assessment and may be used to eliminate selection bias in future epidemiologic studies...
Conduct of a personal radiofrequency electromagnetic field measurement study: proposed study protocolMartin Röösli
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, Basel, 4051, Switzerland
Environ Health 9:23. 2010..As a result, observed differences in exposure levels between study populations may not reflect real exposure differences but may be in part, or wholly due to methodological differences...
Non-cancer effects of chemical agents on children's healthMartin Röösli
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 107:315-22. 2011..Children differ from adults with respect to several aspects which are relevant for assessing their health risk. Thus, independent evaluation of toxicity in childhood populations is essential...
Predictors and overestimation of recalled mobile phone use among children and adolescentsDenis Aydin
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 107:356-61. 2011..As a consequence, such factors act as confounders in studies relying solely on self-reported mobile phone use and have to be considered in the analysis...
Mobile phone use and brain tumors in children and adolescents: a multicenter case-control studyDenis Aydin
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, P O Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
J Natl Cancer Inst 103:1264-76. 2011..We investigated whether mobile phone use is associated with brain tumor risk among children and adolescents...
Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and sleep quality: a prospective cohort studyEvelyn Mohler
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 7:e37455. 2012..The aim of this prospective cohort study was to investigate whether sleep quality is affected by mobile phone use or by other RF-EMF sources in the everyday environment...
Classification of personal exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) for epidemiological research: Evaluation of different exposure assessment methodsPatrizia Frei
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Environ Int 36:714-20. 2010..Self-estimated exposure and geo-coded distance turned out to be poor surrogates for personal exposure...
Cohort study on the effects of everyday life radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure on non-specific symptoms and tinnitusPatrizia Frei
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Environ Int 38:29-36. 2012..The objective of this study was to investigate the association between RF-EMF exposure and non-specific symptoms and tinnitus in a prospective cohort study...
Effects of everyday radiofrequency electromagnetic-field exposure on sleep quality: a cross-sectional studyEvelyn Mohler
a Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Radiat Res 174:347-56. 2010..The results of this large cross-sectional study did not indicate an impairment of subjective sleep quality due to exposure from various sources of RF EMFs in everyday life...
Childhood brain tumours and use of mobile phones: comparison of a case-control study with incidence dataDenis Aydin
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Environ Health 11:35. 2012....
A prediction model for assessing residential radon concentration in SwitzerlandDimitri D Hauri
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstr 57, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
J Environ Radioact 112:83-9. 2012..Nevertheless, some exposure misclassification and regression to the mean is unavoidable and should be taken into account in future applications of the model...
Symptoms of ill health ascribed to electromagnetic field exposure--a questionnaire surveyMartin Röösli
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Int J Hyg Environ Health 207:141-50. 2004..Two thirds of complainants had taken some action to reduce their symptoms. The most common measure was to avoid exposure if possible. Removing or disconnecting indoor sources was judged to be the most effective action...
Magnetic field exposure and neurodegenerative diseases--recent epidemiological studiesKerstin Hug
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
Soz Praventivmed 51:210-20. 2006....
Impact of random and systematic recall errors and selection bias in case--control studies on mobile phone use and brain tumors in adolescents (CEFALO study)Denis Aydin
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Bioelectromagnetics 32:396-407. 2011..These simulations are useful for the interpretation of previous case-control studies on brain tumor and mobile phone use in adults as well as for the interpretation of future studies on adolescents...
Direct health costs of environmental tobacco smoke exposure and indirect health benefits due to smoking ban introductionDimitri D Hauri
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Eur J Public Health 21:316-22. 2011..This includes prevented health damages by avoiding environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure as well as indirect health benefits from reduced tobacco consumption...
Single pollutant versus surrogate measure approaches: do single pollutant risk assessments underestimate the impact of air pollution on lung cancer risk?Martin Röösli
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
J Occup Environ Med 45:715-23. 2003..1 (range, 0.45-2.8) cancer cases per 100,000 person years. We discuss these discrepancies in light of inherent differences between approaches in toxicology and epidemiology...
