Determination of exposure due to mobile phone base stations in an epidemiological study

To investigate a supposed relationship between exposure by mobile phone base stations and wellbeing, an epidemiological cross sectional study is carried out within the German Mobile Telecommunication Research Program. In a parallel project, a method for the classification of electromagnetic exposure...

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Published in:Radiation protection dosimetry 2007-03, Vol.124 (1), p.35-39
Main Authors: Neitzke, H.-P., Osterhoff, J., Peklo, K., Voigt, H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cell Phone
Electromagnetic Fields
Environmental Exposure - analysis
Epidemiologic Studies
Humans
Radio Waves
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Summary:To investigate a supposed relationship between exposure by mobile phone base stations and wellbeing, an epidemiological cross sectional study is carried out within the German Mobile Telecommunication Research Program. In a parallel project, a method for the classification of electromagnetic exposure due to mobile phone base stations has been developed. This is based on the results of measurements of high frequency immissions in the interior of more than 1100 rooms and at outdoor locations, the calculation of the emissions of mobile phone antennas under free space propagation conditions and empirically determined transmission factors for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in different types of residential areas for passage of walls and windows. Standard tests (correlation-test, kappa-test, Bland-Altman-Plot, analysis of sensitivity and specificity) show that the method for computational exposure assessment developed in this project is applicable for a first classification of exposures due to mobile phone base stations in epidemiological studies.
ISSN:0144-8420
1742-3406
DOI:10.1093/rpd/ncm371