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Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields (1997)
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Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields

TABLE A5-4 Residential Electric-and Magnetic-Field Exposure and Childhood Leukemia: Results

Study	Exposure Category	Number of Cases	Number of Controls	Crude OR^a	95% CI^b	Adjusted OR^c	Adjusted 95% CI^d	Potential Confounders Addressed^e
Wertheimer Leeper 1979	Birth addresses:							Age, sex, socioeconomic status (SES), urban residence, family pattern, traffic congestion, onset age
	HCC^f	52	29	2.3	1.3-3.9
	LCC^g	84	107
	Death addresses:
	HCC	63	29	3.0	1.8-5.0
	LCC	92	126
Fulton et al. 1980	Very high	47.5	56.3	1.0	0.6-1.8			Onset age, SES, age
	High	55.4	56.3	1.2	0.7-2.1
	Low	49.5	56.3	1.1	0.6-1.9
	Very low	45.5	56.3
Tomenius 1996	Total residences:							Age, sex, church district of birth
	=0.3 µT	4	10	0.3	0.1-1.1
	<0.3 µT	239	202
Savitz et al. 1988	Field measurements for low-power conditions:							Maternal age, father's education, family income, maternal smoking in pregnancy, traffic density, age, sex, geographic area of residence
	>0.2 µT	5	16	1.9	0.7-5.6	1.8-2.4
	<0.2 µT	31	191
	Field measurements for high-power conditions:
	>0.2 µT	7	29	1.4	0.6-3.5
	<0.2 µT	30	172
	Two-level wire codes:
	High	27	52	1.5	0.9-2.0
	Low	70	207
	Wire codes:
	Very high	7	8	2.8	0.9-8.0
	Very low	28	88