Meningioma and mobile phone use--a collaborative case-control study in five North European countries
Author(s) -
Anna Lahkola,
Tiina Salminen,
Jani Raitanen,
Sirpa Heinävaara,
Minouk J. Schoemaker,
Helle Collatz Christensen,
Maria Feychting,
Christoffer Johansen,
Lars Klæboe,
Stefan Lönn,
Anthony J. Swerdlow,
Tore Tynes,
Anssi Auvinen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyn155
Subject(s) - odds ratio , mobile phone , medicine , confidence interval , population , risk factor , meningioma , case control study , phone , logistic regression , demography , relative risk , environmental health , surgery , computer science , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , sociology
Use of mobile telephones has been suggested as a possible risk factor for intracranial tumours. To evaluate the effect of mobile phones on risk of meningioma, we carried out an international, collaborative case-control study of 1209 meningioma cases and 3299 population-based controls.
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