Electric field and air ion exposures near high voltage overhead power lines and adult cancers: a case control study across England and Wales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Various mechanisms have been postulated to explain how electric fields emitted by high voltage overhead power lines, and the charged ions they produce, might be associated with possible adult cancer risk, but this has not previously been systematically explored in large scale epidemiological research.

Methods

We investigated risks of adult cancers in relation to modelled air ion density (per cm3) within 600 m (focusing analysis on mouth, lung, respiratory), and calculated electric field within 25 m (focusing analysis on non-melanoma skin), of high voltage overhead power lines in England and Wales, 1974-2008.

Results

With adjustment for age, sex, deprivation and rurality, odds ratios (OR) in the highest fifth of net air ion density (0.504-1) compared with th

SUBMITTER: Toledano MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7158064 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature