Elevated risk of Alzheimer's disease among workers with likely electromagnetic field exposure
| Autor: | Helena C. Chui, Eugene Sobel, Z. Qian, M. Dunn, Z. Davanipour |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Gerontology
Aged 80 and over Male medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Disease Odds ratio medicine.disease Central nervous system disease Electromagnetic Fields Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Dementia Humans Female Neurology (clinical) Alzheimer's disease Risk factor business Vascular dementia Aged |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 47(6) |
| ISSN: | 0028-3878 |
| Popis: | We conducted a case-control study of the possible association of occupations with likely exposure to electromagnetic fields and Alzheimer's disease (AD) with patients from the Alzheimer Disease Treatment and Diagnostic Center, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, CA. Patients with definite or probable AD were the case subjects (86 male, 240 female). Patients with cognitive impairment/dementia other than vascular dementia were control subjects (76 male, 76 female). The study was limited to patients who were at least age 65 at the time of their first examination at Rancho Los Amigos. The odds ratio for both sexes combined was adjusted for sex, education, and age at onset. The odds ratio for males was adjusted only for age at onset, and the odds ratio for females was adjusted for both education and age at onset. The adjusted odds ratio for both sexes was 3.93 (p = 0.006), 95% CI = (1.5 to 10.6). For males the adjusted odds ratio was 4.90 (p = 0.01), 95% CI = (1.3 to 7.9), and for females the adjusted odds ratio was 3.40 (p = 0.10), 95% CI = (0.8 to 16.0). These results are consistent with previous findings regarding the hypothesis that electromagnetic field exposure is etiologically associated with the occurrence of AD. |
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