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ArticleAmerican journal of men's health

Mobile Phone Base Station Tower Settings Adjacent to School Buildings: Impact on Students' Cognitive Health.

Sultan Ayoub Meo, Mohammed Almahmoud, Qasem Alsultan, Nawaf Alotaibi, Ibrahim Alnajashi, Waseem M Hajjar

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Article in American journal of men's health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sultan Ayoub Meo1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed Almahmoud1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Qasem Alsultan1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nawaf Alotaibi1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim Alnajashi1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Waseem M Hajjar2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
King Saud University · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of mobile phones has remarkably increased and become a basic need of daily life. Increasing subscriptions of mobile phones boost the installation of mobile phone base station towers (MPBSTs) in crowded commercial and residential areas including near school buildings. This study investigated the impact of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) radiation generated by MPBSTs on cognitive functions. Two hundred and seventeen volunteer male students aged between 13 and 16 registered from two different intermediate schools: 124 students were from School 1 and 93 students were from School 2. The MPBSTs were located within 200 m from the school buildings. In School 1, RF-EMF was 2.010 µW/cm

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AdolescentCell PhoneCognitionCognition DisordersElectromagnetic FieldsFollow-Up StudiesHealth StatusHumansIncidenceMaleNeuropsychological TestsReference ValuesRisk AssessmentSchoolsStudentsCognitive functionElectromagnetic Field RadiationMobile Phones Base Station Tower

Identifiers

PMID30526242
PMCPMC6775553
OpenAlexW2903653035

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