Can exposure to a terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA)-like signal cause symptoms? A randomised double-blind provocation study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 339-344

  Nieto Hernandez, Rosa ^a   Williams, Jonathan ^b   Cleare, Anthony J ^a   Landau, Sabine ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a   Rubin, G James ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIGNAL DETECTION; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN TINGLING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TERRESTRIAL TRUNKED RADIO; THINKING IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS, SECONDARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; PRURITUS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIO WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79953834207     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.055889     Document Type: Article

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