Residential exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields and the risk of ALS

Neurology

Volumn 83, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 1767-1769

  Seelen, Meinie ^a   Vermeulen, Roel C H ^b   Van Dillen, Levien S ^a   Van Der Kooi, Anneke J ^c   Huss, Anke ^b   Visser, Marianne De ^c   Van Den Berg, Leonard H ^a   Veldink, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXPOSURE; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84922263269     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000952     Document Type: Note

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