Do mobile phone base stations affect sleep of residents? Results from an experimental double-blind sham-controlled field study

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 613-618

  Danker Hopfe, Heidi ^a   Dorn, Hans ^a   Bornkessel, Christian ^b   Sauter, Cornelia ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IMST GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULAR PHONE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIO WAVES; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957268819     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.21053     Document Type: Article

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