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Etiology of Pituitary Tumors: A Case Control Study.
Leng L, Zhang Y. · 2016
View Original AbstractMobile phone use and longer duration of use increased pituitary tumor risk in this Chinese study of 450 people.
Plain English Summary
Researchers in China studied 204 people with pituitary tumors and 246 healthy controls to identify risk factors for these brain tumors. They found that mobile phone use and longer duration of use were associated with increased risk of developing pituitary tumors. This suggests that radiofrequency radiation from cell phones may contribute to tumor development in the pituitary gland, which controls many hormonal functions in the body.
Study Details
The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for pituitary tumors.
A population-based case-control study on the potential risk factors of pituitary tumors was conducte...
The risk of tumor was reduced when the interviewee was a worker. The risk was raised with spicy tast...
Increased risk for pituitary tumors is related with spicy taste, mobile phone use, duration of use, characteristics, taking vitamins and possibly a reduced risk is related with the interviewee being a worker. Further investigations are needed to clarify the causes of these associations.
Show BibTeX
@article{l_2016_etiology_of_pituitary_tumors_3192,
author = {Leng L and Zhang Y.},
title = {Etiology of Pituitary Tumors: A Case Control Study.},
year = {2016},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26956811/},
}