Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Health response of two communities to military antennae in Cyprus.
Preece AW, Georgiou AG, Dunn EJ, Farrow S · 2007
View Original AbstractMilitary radio transmitters correlated with increased headaches and migraines, but researchers attributed symptoms to aircraft noise rather than RF exposure.
Plain English Summary
Researchers studied residents living near powerful military radio transmitters in Cyprus to investigate health complaints. They found that people living in exposed villages reported 2.7 to 3.7 times more headaches, migraines, and dizziness compared to unexposed residents, but no increase in cancer or birth defects. The researchers suggested these symptoms were more likely caused by noise from military aircraft or psychological stress from seeing the antennas rather than the radio waves themselves.
Study Details
This study investigated concerns that have been raised about past and future health effects caused by high power transmissions of high frequency (7-30 MHz) radio waves from military antenna systems at Akrotiri, Cyprus.
A cross-sectional study of three villages (two exposed, one unexposed) collected longitudinal and sh...
Field strengths within the two "exposed" villages were a maximum of 0.30 (Volts/Vm(-1) metre) from t...
It was clear that even this close (1-3 km) to powerful transmissions, the dominant sources of radiofrequency fields were cell phone and national broadcast systems. There was no excess of cancer, birth defects or obstetric problems. There was heightened risk perception and a considerable excess of migraine, headache and dizziness, which appears to share a gradient with radiofrequency exposure. The authors report this association but suggest this is unlikely to be an effect of radiofrequency and more likely to be antenna visibility or aircraft noise.
Show BibTeX
@article{aw_2007_health_response_of_two_3314,
author = {Preece AW and Georgiou AG and Dunn EJ and Farrow S},
title = {Health response of two communities to military antennae in Cyprus.},
year = {2007},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17259164/},
}