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Document ID (ISN)76623
CIS number 01-859
ISSN - Serial title 0271-3586 - American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Year 2000
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Savitz D.A., Cai J., van Wijngaarden E., Loomis D., Mihlan G., Dufort V., Kleckner R.C., Nylander-French L., Kromhout H., Zhou H.
Title Case-cohort analysis of brain cancer and leukemia in electric utility workers using a refined magnetic field job-exposure matrix
Bibliographic information Oct. 2000, Vol.38, No.4, p.417-425. Illus. 30 ref.
Abstract This study is based on data from a completed cohort study on the association between occupational electric and magnetic field exposure and cancer. The 164 men who died of leukaemia, 145 men who died of brain cancer and a random sub-cohort of 800 men were selected from the original cohort. Job groups were subdivided based on differences in work environments or tasks performed. Magnetic field exposure remained unrelated to leukaemia mortality and positively associated with brain cancer mortality based on both cumulative and average magnetic field indices. An increased risk of brain cancer was found in relation to career exposure, with risk ratios of 1.8 and 2.5 in the uppermost categories for cumulative and average exposure, stronger for exposure 2-10 years past.
Descriptors (primary) leukaemia; electric power distribution; job-exposure relation; brain cancer; mortality
Descriptors (secondary) hazard evaluation; long-term study; cohort study; exposure evaluation
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceNetherlands; USA
Subject(s) Power generation and distribution
Broad subject area(s) Physical hazards
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the nervous system
Leukaemia