Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Cell phone exposures and hearing loss in children in the danish national birth cohort.
Sudan M, Kheifets L, Arah OA, Olsen J. · 2013
View Original AbstractFirst major study hints at possible link between cell phone use and childhood hearing loss, but evidence remains too weak to draw firm conclusions.
Plain English Summary
Researchers followed over 52,000 Danish children to investigate whether cell phone use affects hearing. They found a weak association between cell phone use and hearing loss at age 7 - about 21-23% increased odds - but the researchers emphasized this finding could be due to various biases and isn't strong enough to conclude cell phones actually cause hearing problems.
Study Details
We investigated the association between cell phone use and hearing loss in children.
The Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) enrolled pregnant women between 1996 and 2002. Detailed inte...
Our analyses included data from 52 680 children. We observed weak associations between cell phone us...
Our findings could have been affected by various biases and are not sufficient to conclude that cell phone exposures have an effect on hearing. This is the first large-scale epidemiologic study to investigate this potentially important association among children, and replication of these findings is needed.
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@article{m_2013_cell_phone_exposures_and_3512,
author = {Sudan M and Kheifets L and Arah OA and Olsen J.},
title = {Cell phone exposures and hearing loss in children in the danish national birth cohort.},
year = {2013},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23574412/},
}