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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Exposure Assessment in Indoor Environments: A Review.

Emma Chiaramello, Marta Bonato, Serena Fiocchi, Gabriella Tognola, Marta Parazzini, Paolo Ravazzani, Joe Wiart

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Three Quarters of a Century of Research on RF Exposure Assessment and Dosimetry-What Have We Learned?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  17. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: a critical review of explanatory hypotheses.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020
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  18. Discrepancies of Measured SAR between Traditional and Fast Measuring Systems.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Emma ChiaramelloIstituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni IEIIT CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy. emma.chiaramello@ieiit.cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0003-2503-4779
Marta BonatoIstituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni IEIIT CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy. marta.bonato@ieiit.cnr.it.
Serena FiocchiIstituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni IEIIT CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy. serena.fiocchi@ieiit.cnr.it.
Gabriella TognolaIstituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni IEIIT CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy. gabriella.tognola@ieiit.cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0002-2433-449X
Marta ParazziniIstituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni IEIIT CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy. marta.parazzini@ieiit.cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0001-9008-7530
Paolo RavazzaniIstituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni IEIIT CNR, 20133 Milano, Italy. paolo.ravazzani@ieiit.cnr.it.ORCID 0000-0003-0282-3329
Joe WiartTélécom ParisTech, LTCI University Paris Saclay, Chair C2M, 75013 Paris, France. joe.wiart@telecom-paristech.fr.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exposure to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in indoor environments depends on both outdoor sources such as radio, television and mobile phone antennas and indoor sources, such as mobile phones and wireless communications applications. Establishing the levels of exposure could be challenging due to differences in the approaches used in different studies. The goal of this study is to present an overview of the last ten years research efforts about RF EMF exposure in indoor environments, considering different RF-EMF sources found to cause exposure in indoor environments, different indoor environments and different approaches used to assess the exposure. The highest maximum mean levels of the exposure considering the whole RF-EMF frequency band was found in offices (1.14 V/m) and in public transports (0.97 V/m), while the lowest levels of exposure were observed in homes and apartments, with mean values in the range 0.13⁻0.43 V/m. The contribution of different RF-EMF sources to the total level of exposure was found to show slightly different patterns among the indoor environments, but this finding has to be considered as a time-dependent picture of the continuous evolving exposure to RF-EMF.

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Electromagnetic FieldsEnvironmental ExposureRadio WavesCell PhoneCommunicationHousingHumansTelevisionTransportationWorkplaceexposure assessmentindoor environmentsRF electromagnetic fields

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PMID30884917
PMCPMC6466609

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