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Neurodegenerative disease and magnetic field exposure in UK electricity supply workers.
Sorahan T, Mohammed N. · 2014
View Original AbstractNo increased risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or motor neurone disease found in electricity workers despite decades of elevated magnetic field exposure.
Plain English Summary
Researchers followed over 73,000 UK electricity workers for nearly 40 years to see if workplace magnetic field exposure increased their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, or motor neurone disease. They found no statistically significant increase in any of these neurodegenerative diseases, even among workers with the highest magnetic field exposures. This suggests that occupational magnetic field exposure at the levels experienced by electricity workers does not elevate the risk of these brain diseases.
Study Details
To investigate whether risks of Alzheimer’s, motor neurone or Parkinson’s disease are related to occupational exposure to magnetic fields.
The mortality experienced by a cohort of 73051 employees of the former Central Electricity Generatin...
No statistically significant trends were shown for risks of any of these diseases to increase with e...
There is no convincing evidence that UK electricity generation and transmission workers have suffered elevated risks from neurodegenerative diseases as a consequence of exposure to magnetic fields.
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@article{t_2014_neurodegenerative_disease_and_magnetic_2904,
author = {Sorahan T and Mohammed N.},
title = {Neurodegenerative disease and magnetic field exposure in UK electricity supply workers.},
year = {2014},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/occmed/article/64/6/454/2750758?login=true},
}