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| Gabor MezeiSummaryAffiliation: Electric Power Research Institute Country: USA Publications
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Household appliance use and residential exposure to 60-hz magnetic fieldsG Mezei
Environment Division, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 11:41-9. 2001..Questionnaire-based information on appliance use has limited value in the assessment of average and over-threshold exposure to MFs...
Assessment of selection bias in the Canadian case-control study of residential magnetic field exposure and childhood leukemiaGabor Mezei
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1504-10. 2008..Inherent problems in exposure assessment for nonparticipating subjects, however, limit the interpretations of these results, and the role of selection bias cannot entirely be dismissed on the basis of these results alone...- Residential magnetic field exposure and childhood brain cancer: a meta-analysisGabor Mezei
Environment Division, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Epidemiology 19:424-30. 2008..Comparison of results from studies of childhood brain cancer and childhood leukemia may also help to assess the potential for selection bias in childhood leukemia studies... - Mobile phone ownership and use among school children in three Hungarian citiesGabor Mezei
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, USA
Bioelectromagnetics 28:309-15. 2007..Due to rapid changes in ownership patterns follow up surveys will be required to obtain information on temporal trends and changes in mobile phone ownership and pattern of use among school children... - Occupational magnetic field exposure, cardiovascular disease mortality, and potential confounding by smokingGabor Mezei
Electric Power Research Institute EPRI, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Ann Epidemiol 15:622-9. 2005..To assess the relationship between occupational magnetic field (MF) exposure and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality and to determine whether smoking could confound this relationship... - Analyses of magnetic-field peak-exposure summary measuresGabor Mezei
Electric Power Research Institute, Environment Department, Palo Alto, CA, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 16:477-85. 2006..Future epidemiologic studies of peak magnetic field exposure and spontaneous abortion should carefully evaluate the potential confounding effect of the women's activity level during pregnancy... - Selection bias and its implications for case-control studies: a case study of magnetic field exposure and childhood leukaemiaGabor Mezei
Environment Department, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:397-406. 2006..We call for better reporting and for evaluation of the potential for selection bias in all case-control studies, as well as, for the development of novel methods in control selection and recruitment... - Socioeconomic status and childhood solid tumor and lymphoma incidence in CanadaGabor Mezei
Environment Division, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:170-5. 2006..No association was found for other types of cancer. Although a potential relation between socioeconomic status and childhood cancer cannot be excluded, the overall pattern seems compatible with random variation... - Magnetic field exposure and prognostic factors in childhood leukemiaDonna E Foliart
Public Health Institute, Oakland, California, USA
Bioelectromagnetics 28:69-71. 2007..Our results suggest that exposure to MF is not associated with the presence of unfavorable cytogenetic abnormalities in leukemic blast cells or with clinical factors at the time of diagnosis that predict poor survival... - Occupational electromagnetic fields and leukemia and brain cancer: an update to two meta-analysesLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:677-88. 2008..To update past meta-analyses on occupational electromagnetic fields (EMF) and adult brain cancer and leukemia... - Occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and neurodegenerative disease: a meta-analysisXimena Vergara
From the Department of Epidemiology Drs Greenland, Kheifets, and Oksuzyan, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA Department of Statistics, Los Angeles, Calif Dr Greenland, Environmental Health Research Division, National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, Republic of Korea Dr Cho and the Electric Power Research Institute Palo Alto, Calif Drs Vergara and Mezei
J Occup Environ Med 55:135-46. 2013..Results differ between studies using proxy exposure based on occupational titles and estimated MF levels. We conducted a meta-analysis of occupational MF NDD, primarily Alzheimer disease (AD), and motor neuron diseases (MNDs) studies... - Correlation of year-to-year magnetic field exposure metrics among children in a leukemia survival studyDonna E Foliart
Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 12:441-7. 2002.... - Occupational magnetic field exposure and cardiovascular mortality in a cohort of electric utility workersJack Sahl
J Sahl and Associates, Upland, CA 917884, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:913-8. 2002..01, 95% confidence interval: 0.99, 1.02) or CCHD (rate ratio per 1 micro T-year = 1.00, 95% confidence interval: 0.99, 1.02). These results, indicating no exposure-related risk increase for AMI mortality, do not confirm previous results... - Childhood leukaemia and socioeconomic statusMarilyn J Borugian
Int J Epidemiol 36:1155; author reply 1156. 2007 - Nighttime exposure to electromagnetic fields and childhood leukemia: an extended pooled analysisJoachim Schüz
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 166:263-9. 2007..These results do not support the hypotheses that nighttime measures are more appropriate; hence, the observed association between ELF EMF and childhood leukemia still lacks a plausible explanation... - Assessment of non-response bias in a survey of residential magnetic field exposure in TaiwanChung Yi Li
Department of Public Health, Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan
Bioelectromagnetics 28:340-8. 2007.... - Re: "Electromagnetic fields, polychlorinated biphenyls, and prostate cancer mortality in electric utility workers"Gabor Mezei
Am J Epidemiol 158:928-9; author reply 929. 2003 - Childhood leukemia and socioeconomic status in CanadaMarilyn J Borugian
Cancer Control Research Program, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
Epidemiology 16:526-31. 2005..This study was undertaken to determine whether there is a difference in incidence of childhood leukemia for different levels of SES, as measured by neighborhood income, in an unselected population case group... - Comment concerning "Childhood leukemia and residential magnetic fields: are pooled analyses more valid than the original studies?" (Bioelectromagnetics 27:1-7 [2006])Leeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Bioelectromagnetics 27:674-5; discussion 675-6. 2006 - Socioeconomic status and childhood leukaemia: a reviewCharles Poole
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, 27599 7435, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:370-84. 2006..A long-held view links higher socioeconomic status (SES) to higher rates of childhood leukaemia. Some recent studies exhibit associations in the opposite direction... - Physical activity and magnetic field exposure in pregnancyDavid A Savitz
Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health, and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Epidemiology 17:222-5. 2006..Peak magnetic field exposure was associated with increased risk of miscarriage in 2 recent studies. Reduced physical activity levels in healthy pregnancies may affect measured exposure and thus bias results... - Extremely-low-frequency magnetic field exposure of children at schools near high voltage transmission linesChung Yi Li
Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, 510 Chung Cheng Road, Hsinchuang, Taipei Hsien 24205, Taiwan
Sci Total Environ 376:151-9. 2007..Children attending the exposed schools may have a higher chance of experiencing a mean exposure greater than 0.4 microT during school hours... - Childhood leukaemia and socioeconomic statusMarilyn J Borugian
Int J Epidemiol 36:929. 2007 - Survey of residential extremely-low-frequency magnetic field exposure among children in TaiwanChung Yi Li
Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, 510, Chung Cheng Rd, HsinChuang 24205, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan
Environ Int 33:233-8. 2007..4 microT. Our survey results indicate that residential ELF-MF exposure is likely to be higher for children in Taiwan than for children in Europe and North America...