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ReviewWiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)2011

Children's health and RF EMF exposure. Views from a risk assessment and risk communication perspective.

Peter Wiedemann, Holger Schütz

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Review in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Microwaves and Alzheimer's disease.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Peter WiedemannKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), ITAS, Berlin, Germany. peter.wiedemann@itas.fzk.de
Holger Schütz
Forschungszentrum Jülich · DEKarlsruhe Institute of Technology · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A review of the scientific literature published until August 2010, covering epidemiological studies on the effects of RF EMF exposure on the incidence of brain tumours and leukaemia in children as well as experimental studies on RF EMF effects on cognition and CNS in children, reveals no or only scant evidence for the assumption that RF EMF exposure poses a hazard to children. This result is at odds with public risk perceptions, i.e. prevailing concerns of (at least part of) the public about adverse health effect of RF EMF. Consequences for risk communication are discussed. A scientifically sound and easy-to-understand risk communication is especially exacerbated by the fact that current risk assessments cannot exclude that RF EMF might have adverse health effects due remaining knowledge gaps, but especially due to the impossibility to prove a non-effect.

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Cell PhoneAdolescentBrain NeoplasmsChildChild, PreschoolCognitionElectromagnetic FieldsFemaleHealth EducationHumansInfantInfant, NewbornLeukemia, Radiation-InducedNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed Effects

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PMID21638213
OpenAlexW1494849312

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