Occupational exposure to radio frequency/microwave radiation and the risk of brain tumors: Interphone Study Group, Germany epidem.

[Berufliche Exposition bei Hochfrequenz/Mikrowellen und das Risiko für Hirntumor: Interphone-Studiengruppe, Deutschland]

Ziel der Studie (lt. Autor)

Weitere Details

Endpunkt/Art der Risikoabschätzung

• Hirntumor: Meningiom und Gliom

Exposition

• • Hochfrequenz
  • Mikrowellen
  • auch andere Expositionen ohne EMF
• • therapeutisches/medizinisches Gerät
  • Mobilfunk
  • digitales Mobiltelefon
  • Mobilfunk-Basisstation
  • drahtloses Übermittlungssystem/Antenne
• • berufliche Exposition

Abschätzung

• Fragebogen: Nutzung von Mobiltelefon, Sprechfunk- und Amateurfunk-Geräten; berufliche Tätigkeit im Bereich von elektromagnetischen Feldern und ionisierenden Strahlen
• Job-Exposure-Matrix

Expositionsgruppen

Population

• Gruppe:
  • Männer
  • Frauen
• Alter: 30–69 Jahre
• Beobachtungszeitraum: Oktober 2000 - Oktober 2003
• Studienort: Deutschland (3 Studienregionen)

Fallgruppe

• Merkmale: Meningiom und Gliom, histologisch bestätigt
• Datenquelle: Neurochirurgie-Kliniken in Bielefeld, Heidelberg, Mainz und Mannheim in Deutschland

Kontrollgruppe

• Auswahl:
  • populationsbezogen
• Matching:
  • Geschlecht
  • Alter
  • Region
  • Fall:Kontrolle = 1:2

Studiengröße

Ergebnisse (lt. Autor)

Studie gefördert durch

• Deutsches Mobilfunk Forschungsprogramm (DMF; German Mobile Phone Research Programme) at Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS)
• GSM Association, UK/Ireland
• International Union against Cancer (UICC; Union Internationale Contre le Cancer), Switzerland
• MAIFOR Program (Mainzer Forschungsförderungsprogramm) of the University of Mainz, Germany
• Ministerium für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Ministry for the Environment of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany
• Ministerium für Umwelt und Verkehr, Baden-Württemberg (Ministry for the Environment and Traffic of the state of Baden-Württemberg), Germany
• Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF), Belgium
• Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources program of European Union

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