2007-02-14, 18:51
#1
Bde AB och expressen har p sistone trumpetat ut hur farlig mobiltelefonen r.
Man refererar till en underskning som skall ha publicerats i International Journal of Cancer.
Jag har gtt till deras website. Artikeln finns uppenbarligen, men det kostar US$ 25.00 att f lsa den. Jag avstr.
Dock kan man f se en "abstract" gratis.
Den lyder
"Abstract
Public concern has been expressed about the possible adverse health effects of mobile telephones, mainly related to intracranial tumors. We conducted a population-based case-control study to investigate the relationship between mobile phone use and risk of glioma among 1,522 glioma patients and 3,301 controls. We found no evidence of increased risk of glioma related to regular mobile phone use (odds ratio, OR = 0.78, 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.68, 0.91). No significant association was found across categories with duration of use, years since first use, cumulative number of calls or cumulative hours of use. When the linear trend was examined, the OR for cumulative hours of mobile phone use was 1.006 (1.002, 1.010) per 100 hr, but no such relationship was found for the years of use or the number of calls. We found no increased risks when analogue and digital phones were analyzed separately. For more than 10 years of mobile phone use reported on the side of the head where the tumor was located, an increased OR of borderline statistical significance (OR = 1.39, 95% CI 1.01, 1.92, p trend 0.04) was found, whereas similar use on the opposite side of the head resulted in an OR of 0.98 (95% CI 0.71, 1.37). Although our results overall do not indicate an increased risk of glioma in relation to mobile phone use, the possible risk in the most heavily exposed part of the brain with long-term use needs to be explored further before firm conclusions can be drawn. 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc."
Nu r jag inte statistiker (ej heller strlfysiker eller medicinare), men nr jag lser texten s fr jag inte intrycket av ngon larmrapport.
Dom skriver ju "Although our results overall do not indicate an increased risk of glioma in relation to mobile phone use" (Min understrykning). Vari bestr "larmet"?
Det skulle vara intressant att hra ngon fack-kunnig att ge sin syn p saken!
Allra mest intressant skulle det frsts vara att hra t. ex. AB:s journalist (Oisn Cantwell) ge sin syn p saken, men han har inte svarat p mail, s han r nog inte s hugad..
Jag *tror* faktiskt inte att OC har lst artikeln i IJoC, utan skriver sin artikel baserat p ngon annans referat av den. (Och det kan ju i sin tur vara ett referat).
D har vi ju flera led av okunskap parat med sedvanlig AB-journalistik, och det kan ju bli ganska fel....
/T
Man refererar till en underskning som skall ha publicerats i International Journal of Cancer.
Jag har gtt till deras website. Artikeln finns uppenbarligen, men det kostar US$ 25.00 att f lsa den. Jag avstr.
Dock kan man f se en "abstract" gratis.
Den lyder
"Abstract
Public concern has been expressed about the possible adverse health effects of mobile telephones, mainly related to intracranial tumors. We conducted a population-based case-control study to investigate the relationship between mobile phone use and risk of glioma among 1,522 glioma patients and 3,301 controls. We found no evidence of increased risk of glioma related to regular mobile phone use (odds ratio, OR = 0.78, 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.68, 0.91). No significant association was found across categories with duration of use, years since first use, cumulative number of calls or cumulative hours of use. When the linear trend was examined, the OR for cumulative hours of mobile phone use was 1.006 (1.002, 1.010) per 100 hr, but no such relationship was found for the years of use or the number of calls. We found no increased risks when analogue and digital phones were analyzed separately. For more than 10 years of mobile phone use reported on the side of the head where the tumor was located, an increased OR of borderline statistical significance (OR = 1.39, 95% CI 1.01, 1.92, p trend 0.04) was found, whereas similar use on the opposite side of the head resulted in an OR of 0.98 (95% CI 0.71, 1.37). Although our results overall do not indicate an increased risk of glioma in relation to mobile phone use, the possible risk in the most heavily exposed part of the brain with long-term use needs to be explored further before firm conclusions can be drawn. 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc."
Nu r jag inte statistiker (ej heller strlfysiker eller medicinare), men nr jag lser texten s fr jag inte intrycket av ngon larmrapport.
Dom skriver ju "Although our results overall do not indicate an increased risk of glioma in relation to mobile phone use" (Min understrykning). Vari bestr "larmet"?
Det skulle vara intressant att hra ngon fack-kunnig att ge sin syn p saken!
Allra mest intressant skulle det frsts vara att hra t. ex. AB:s journalist (Oisn Cantwell) ge sin syn p saken, men han har inte svarat p mail, s han r nog inte s hugad..
Jag *tror* faktiskt inte att OC har lst artikeln i IJoC, utan skriver sin artikel baserat p ngon annans referat av den. (Och det kan ju i sin tur vara ett referat).
D har vi ju flera led av okunskap parat med sedvanlig AB-journalistik, och det kan ju bli ganska fel....
/T
