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IJE Advance Access originally published online on March 1, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(2):407-408; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl033
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Magnetic field exposure and childhood leukaemia—moving the research agenda forward

Martin Röösli1,* and Nino Künzli2,3

1 Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland.
2 ICREA and Institut Municipal de Investigacio Medica (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain.
3 Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

* Corresponding author. E-mail: roeoesli@ispm.unibe.ch

Accepted 9 February 2006

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An association between childhood leukaemia and exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MF) has been consistently documented in reviews of this field of research.1–3 Nevertheless, the relationship remains questionable because the risks were observed at exposure levels where biological effects are not assumed to occur.4 Animal data have mostly been negative and a plausible and reproducible biological mechanism is still lacking.5 Studies on adult leukaemia in populations with much higher occupational ELF-MF exposures are inconclusive, though . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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