National Academy of Sciences | 150 Year Anniversary

Questions? Call 800-624-6242

| Items in cart [0]

The National Academies Press

HARDBACK
price:$49.95
add to cart

Rights & Permissions

topleft topright

Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields (1997)
Commission on Life Sciences (CLS)

Citation Manager

. "Appendix A: Tables." Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997.

Please select a format:

BibTeX EndNote RefMan


Page
284
bottomleft bottomright

The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.


Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields

TABLE A5-11 Residential Electric-and Magnetic-Field Exposure and Adult Cancer: Results

Study

Exposure Description

Number of Cases

Number of Controls

Crude ORa

Adjusted 95% CIb

Potential Confounders Addressedc

Wertheimer and Leeper 1892

Wire codes:

 

 

 

 

Sex, age, socioeconomic status, onset age, urban exposure

 

VHCCd

108

74

2.2

1.5-3.2

 

 

OHCCe

330

298

1.7

1.2-2.2

 

 

OLCCf

642

659

1.5

1.1-1.9

 

 

End poleg

99

148

 

 

 

a Odds ratio calculated without consideration of possible confounders (ratio of exposed to unexposed cases divided by the ratio of exposed to unexposed controls).

b 95% confidence intervals for the odds ratio calculated without consideration of possible confounders.

c Includes all factors considered as potential confounders whether or not statistical adjustments were made for them.

d VHCC, very high current configuration.

e OHCC, ordinary high current configuration.

f OLCC, ordinary low current configuration.

g End pole, very low current configuration.

Page
284