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Feasibility of future epidemiological studies on possible health effects of mobile phone base stationsGeorg Neubauer
Division of Information Technologies, ARC Seibersdorf research ARC sr, A 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
Bioelectromagnetics 28:224-30. 2007..For long term effects, groups with a potential for high exposure need to first be identified; for immediate effect, human laboratory studies are the preferred approach...
Cell phone use and behavioural problems in young childrenHozefa A Divan
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:524-9. 2012..Exposure to cell phones prenatally, and to a lesser degree postnatally, was associated with more behavioural difficulties. The original analysis included nearly 13 000 children who reached age 7 years by November 2006...- 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... - Future needs of occupational epidemiology of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields: review and recommendationsL Kheifets
UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 73 284 CHS, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Occup Environ Med 66:72-80. 2009..Such a study will potentially lead to evidence-based measures to protect public health... - 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 - Childhood leukemia, electric and magnetic fields, and temporal trendsLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Bioelectromagnetics 27:545-52. 2006.... - Exposure assessment and other challenges in non-ionizing radiation studies of childhood leukaemiaL Kheifets
UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 132:139-47. 2008..An exposure assessment methodology for residential radiofrequency fields is still in its infancy. Rapid changes in technology and exponential increases in its use make exposure assessment more difficult and urgent... - Should epidemiologists always publish their results? Yes, almost alwaysLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Epidemiology 19:532-3. 2008..An open debate is a healthy and necessary part of this process and we should not seek to hide or avoid a constructive discussion by reporting selectively... - Developing policy in the face of scientific uncertainty: interpreting 0.3 microT or 0.4 microT cutpoints from EMF epidemiologic studiesLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Risk Anal 25:927-35. 2005..The World Health Organization's draft Precautionary Framework provides guidance for establishing appropriate public health policies for power-frequency EMF... - Extremely low frequency electric fields and cancer: assessing the evidenceLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Bioelectromagnetics 31:89-101. 2010.... - Extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and heart diseaseLeeka Kheifets
UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 73 284 CHS, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 33:5-12. 2007..This effort represents an interesting case study of a scientific inquiry that has been successfully resolved despite numerous methodological difficulties inherent in research on low-level environmental exposures... - The sensitivity of children to electromagnetic fieldsLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, University of California School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Pediatrics 116:e303-13. 2005..It also includes an assessment of the potential susceptibility of children to EMFs and concludes with a recommendation for additional research and the development of precautionary policies in the face of scientific uncertainty... - Childhood leukemia and EMF: review of the epidemiologic evidenceLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Bioelectromagnetics . 2005..The purpose of this study, presented at the WHO Workshop on Sensitivity of Children to EMF in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2004, is to review and critically assess the epidemiologic evidence on EMF and childhood leukemia... - Exploring exposure--response for magnetic fields and childhood leukemiaLeeka Kheifets
UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 21:625-33. 2011.... 
A pooled analysis of extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and childhood brain tumorsLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:752-61. 2010..These results provide little evidence for an association between ELF-MF exposure and childhood brain tumors...- Risk governance for mobile phones, power lines, and other EMF technologiesLeeka Kheifets
UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Risk Anal 30:1481-94. 2010..Lessons from the power-frequency experience can benefit risk governance of the radio-frequency EMFs and other emerging technologies... - Pooled analysis of recent studies on magnetic fields and childhood leukaemiaL Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Br J Cancer 103:1128-35. 2010..We present a pooled analysis based on primary data from studies on residential magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia published after 2000... - Leukemia attributable to residential magnetic fields: results from analyses allowing for study biasesSander Greenland
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Risk Anal 26:471-82. 2006..These analyses support the idea that the public health impact of residential fields is likely to be limited, but both no impact and a substantial impact remain possibilities in light of the available data... - Designs and analyses for exploring the relationship of magnetic fields to childhood leukaemia: a pilot project for the Danish National Birth CohortSander Greenland
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Scand J Public Health 37:83-92. 2009..We conclude that the approach outlined may be of value not only for this topic but also in other studies of effects of rare exposures and genetic factors on rare outcomes... - Public health impact of extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fieldsLeeka Kheifets
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1772, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1532-7. 2006..There remain, however, a number of uncertainties in these AF estimates, particularly in the exposure distributions... - Prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phone use and behavioral problems in childrenHozefa A Divan
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Epidemiology 19:523-9. 2008..We examined the association between prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phones and behavioral problems in young children... - Birth weight and other perinatal characteristics and childhood leukemia in CaliforniaS Oksuzyan
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, United States Electronic address
Cancer Epidemiol 36:e359-65. 2012..These findings suggest that associations of childhood leukemia and perinatal factors depend highly on subtype of leukemia... - Single nucleotide polymorphisms of 8 inflammation-related genes and their associations with smoking-related cancersSam S Oh
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 127:2169-82. 2010.... - 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... - 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... - Occupational magnetic field exposure and myocardial infarction incidenceAnders Ahlbom
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Epidemiology 15:403-8. 2004..We tested the hypothesis that occupational EMF exposure increases the risk of myocardial infarction in a large population-based case-control study of myocardial infarction, with detailed information on potential confounders... - Epidemiology of health effects of radiofrequency exposureAnders Ahlbom
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Environ Health Perspect 112:1741-54. 2004.... - EMF and healthMaria Feychting
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Annu Rev Public Health 26:165-89. 2005..This technology is constantly changing and there is a need for continued research on this issue. Almost no epidemiologic data are available for static fields... - Childhood cancer and power lines: results depend on chosen control groupLeeka Kheifets
BMJ 331:635; discussion 636; author reply 636-7. 2005 - Guest editors' introduction: is EMF a potential environmental risk for children?Mike Repacholi
Bioelectromagnetics . 2005 - 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... - Biophysical mechanisms: a component in the weight of evidence for health effects of power-frequency electric and magnetic fieldsJohn Swanson
National Grid plc, London, United Kingdom
Radiat Res 165:470-8. 2006..Nevertheless, it is a relevant consideration in assessing the overall evidence on these fields... - 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... - Electromagnetic fields, science and public concernLeeka Kheifets
Soz Praventivmed 51:183-4. 2006 - Further comments on "Long-term exposure of Emu-Pim1 transgenic mice to 898.4 MHz microwaves does not increase lymphoma incidence" by Utteridge et al. (Radiat. Res. 158, 357-364 2002)Lawrence S Goldstein
Radiat Res 159:835; author reply 835-6. 2003 - Comments on "Long-term exposure of Emicro-Pim1 transgenic mice to 898.4 MHz microwaves does not increase lymphoma incidence" by Utteridge et al., Radiat. Res. 158, 357-364 (2002)Lawrence S Goldstein
Radiat Res 159:275-6; author reply 276-8. 2003 - 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...