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Paternal occupational exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and risk of adverse pregnancy outcome.
Mjøen G, Saetre DO, Lie RT, Tynes T, Blaasaas KG, Hannevik M, Irgens LM · 2006
View Original AbstractFathers with high occupational RF exposure showed 8% higher preterm birth risk but lower rates of some birth defects.
Plain English Summary
Norwegian researchers studied whether fathers exposed to radiofrequency radiation at work had children with more birth defects or pregnancy complications. They analyzed data from over 100,000 births and found mixed results: fathers with the highest occupational RF exposure had an 8% increased risk of preterm birth, but actually lower rates of some birth defects like cleft lip. The researchers concluded the findings were "partly reassuring" for exposed fathers.
Study Details
Our objective was to assess associations between paternal occupational exposure to RFR and adverse pregnancy outcomes including birth defects using population-based data from Norway.
Data on reproductive outcomes derived from the Medical Birth Registry of Norway were linked with dat...
In the offspring of fathers most likely to have been exposed, increased risk was observed for preter...
The study is partly reassuring for occupationally exposed fathers.
Show BibTeX
@article{g_2006_paternal_occupational_exposure_to_3251,
author = {Mjøen G and Saetre DO and Lie RT and Tynes T and Blaasaas KG and Hannevik M and Irgens LM},
title = {Paternal occupational exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and risk of adverse pregnancy outcome.},
year = {2006},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16858619/},
}