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All-cause mortality among belgian military radar operators: a 40-year controlled longitudinal study.
Degrave E, Autier P, Grivegnee AR, Zizi M. · 2005
View Original AbstractForty years of tracking Belgian radar operators found no increased death rates from high-power occupational radiofrequency exposure.
Plain English Summary
Belgian researchers tracked 27,671 military radar operators for 40 years to see if radiofrequency exposure from radar equipment increased their risk of death from any cause. They found no increase in mortality rates compared to 16,128 control soldiers who weren't exposed to radar. This large, long-term study suggests that occupational radar exposure at the levels experienced by these military personnel did not significantly impact overall survival.
Study Details
The aim of this study is to investigate All-cause mortality among belgian military radar operators: a 40-year controlled longitudinal study.
The all-cause mortality of 27,671 Belgian militaries who served from 1963 until 1994 in battalions e...
The age-standardized mortality ratio (SMR) in the radar battalions was 1.05 (95% CI: 0.95-1.16) in p...
During a 40-year period of observation, we found no increase in all-cause mortality in Belgian militaries who were in close contact with radar equipments of anti-aircraft defence battalions.
Show BibTeX
@article{e_2005_allcause_mortality_among_belgian_3001,
author = {Degrave E and Autier P and Grivegnee AR and Zizi M.},
title = {All-cause mortality among belgian military radar operators: a 40-year controlled longitudinal study.},
year = {2005},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16151881/},
}