Mobile phone base stations and adverse health effects: Phase 2 of a cross-sectional study with measured radio frequency electromagnetic fields

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-130

  Berg Beckhoff, G ^a   Blettner, M ^b   Kowall, B ^a   Breckenkamp, J ^a   Schlehofer, B ^c   Schmiedel, S ^d   Bornkessel, C ^e   Reis, U ^f   Potthoff, P ^f   Schuz J ^d  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^e IMST GMBH   (Germany)

^f TNS Heath Care GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CELLULAR PHONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIO WAVES; RADIOMETRY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59049094751     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.039834     Document Type: Article

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