MTHR - Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research

Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals

The principal route for disseminating the findings from any scientific study is by publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Papers submitted to journals undergo a rigorous process of review by anonymous external referees who are experts in their fields. Journal editors will only accept papers for publication when they are satisfied that all issues raised by the external reviewers have been adequately addressed by the authors and that the work is of sufficient quality to merit publication. The MTHR Programme Management Committee (PMC) strongly encourages Principal Investigators to publish their research findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals at the earliest opportunity. This page lists the publications that have resulted from work funded under the Programme.

Once work has been fully published in the scientific literature full Final Reports are published elsewhere on this web site.

Epidemiology

Cardis E, Richardson L, Deltour I, Armstrong B, Feychting M, Johansen C, Kilkenny M, McKinney P, Modan BSadetzki S, Schüz J, Swerdlow A, Vrijheid M, Auvinen A, Berg G, Blettner M, Bowman J, Brown J, Chetrit A, Collatz Christensen H, Cook A, Hepworth S, Giles G, Hours M, Iavarone I, Jarus Hakak A, Klaeboe L, Krewski D, Susanna Lagorio S, Lönn S, Mann S, McBride M, Muir K, Nadon L, Parent M-E, Pearce N, Salminen T, Schoemaker M, Schlehofer B, Siemiatycki J, Taki M, Takebayashi T, Tynes T, van Tongeren M, Vecchia P, Wiart J, Woodward A and Yamaguchi N (2007). The INTERPHONE Study: Design, Epidemiological Methods, and Description of the Study Population. Eur J Epidemiol, 22(9), 647-64.

Hepworth SJ, Schoemaker MJ, Muir KR, Swerdlow AJ, van Tongeren M, and McKinney PA. (2006). Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: a UK case-control study. British Medical Journal, 332, 883-886.

Hillert L, Ahlbom A, Neasham D, Feychting M, Jarup L, Navin R, Elliott P (2006). Call-related factors influencing output power from mobile phones. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol, 16(6), 507-514.

Lahkola A, Auvinen A, Salminen T, Raitanen J, Schoemaker MJ, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Lonn S, Swerdlow AJ, and Tynes T (2007). Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in five North European contries. Int J Cancer, 120(8), 1769-1775.

Lahkola A, Salminen T, Raitanen J, Heinävaara S, Schoemaker MJ, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Johansen C, Klæboe L, Lönn S, Tynes T, and Auvinen A (2008). Meningioma and mobile phone use - a collaborative case-control study in five North European contries. Int J Epidemiol, E-publication in advance of print doi:10.1093/ije/dyn155.

Parslow RC, Hepworth SJ, and McKinney PA, (2003). Recall of past use of mobile phone handsets. Radiat Prot Dosim, 106(3), 233-40.

Schoemaker MJ, Swerdlow AJ, Ahlbom A, Auvinen A, Blaasaas KG, Cardis E, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Hepworth SJ, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Lonn S, McKinney PA, Muir K, Raitanen J, Salminen T, Thomsen J, and Tynes T (2005). Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries. Br J Cancer, 93(7), 842-848.

Vrijheid M, Cardis E, Armstrong BK, Auvinen A, Berg G, Blaasaas KG, Brown J, Carroll M, Chetrit A, Christensen HC, Deltour I, Feychting M, Giles GG, Hepworth SJ, Hours M, Lavarone I, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Kurttio P, Lagorio S, Lonn S, McKinney PA, Montestrucq L, Parslow RC, Richardson L, Sadetzki S, Salminen T, Schuz J, Tynes T, Woodward A, the Interphone Study Group (2006). Validation of short term recall of mobile phone use for the Interphone study. Occup Environ Med, 63(4), 237-43.

Volunteer

Bamiou D-E, Ceranic B, Cox R, Watt H, Chadwick P and Luxon LM (2007). Mobile telephone use effects on labyrinthine function: a case-control study. Bioelectromagnetics, 29(2), 108-17.

Barker AT, Jackson PR, Parry H, Coulton LA, Cook GG and Wood SM (2007). The effect of GSM and TETRA mobile handset signals on blood pressure, catechol levels and heart rate variability. Bioelectromagnetics, 28(6), 433-8.

Barnett J. Timotijevic L, Shepherd R and Senior V (2007). Public responses to precautionary information from the Department of Health (UK) about possible health risks from mobile phones. Health Policy, 82(2), 240-205.

Cinel C, Boldini A, Fox E and Russo R (2008). Does the use of mobile phones affect human short-term memory or attention? Applied Cognitive Psychology, E-publication in advance of print doi: 10.1002/acp.1425.

Cinel C, Boldini A, Russo R and Fox E (2007). Effects of mobile phone electromagnetic fields on an auditory order threshold task. Bioelectromagnetics, 28(6), 493-6 .

Cinel C, Russo R, Boldini A, and Fox E (2008). Exposure to mobile phone electromagnetic fields and subjective symptoms: a double-blind study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 345-348.

Eltiti S, Wallace D, Ridgewell A, Zougkou K, Russo R, Sepulveda F, Mirshekar-Syahkal D, Rasor P, Deeble R and Fox E (2007). Does short-term exposure to mobile phone base station signals increase symptoms in individuals who report sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? A double-blind randomised provocation study. Environ Health Perspect, 115(11), 1603-1608.

Eltiti S, Wallace D, Zougkou K, Russo R, Joseph S, Rasor P and Fox E (2007). Development and evaluation of the electromagnetic hypersensitivity questionnaire. Bioelectromagnetics, 28(2), 137-151.

Nieto-Hernandez R, Rubin GJ, Cleare AJ, Weinman JA, and Wessely S (2008). Can evidence change belief? Reported mobile phone sensitivity following individual feedback of an inability to discriminate active from sham signals. J Psychosomatic Research E-publication in advance of print doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.04.005.

Rubin GJ, Cleare AJ and Wessely S (2008). Pychological factors associated with self-reported sensistivity to mobile phones. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64(1), 1-9

Rubin GJ, Das Munshi J and Wessely S (2005). Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: A systematic review of provocation studies. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 224–232.

Rubin GJ, Das-Munshi J and Wessely S (2006). A systematic review of treatments for electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 75, 12-18.

Rubin, GJ, Hahn, G, Everitt, B S, Cleare, A J and Wessely, S (2006). Are some people sensitive to mobile phone signals? Within participants double blind randomised provocation study. British Medical Journal, 332(7526), 886-91.

Russso R, Fox E, Cinel C, Boldini A, Defeyeter M, Mirshekar D and Mehta A (2006). Does acute exposure to mobile phones affect human attention? Bioelectromagnetics, 27(3), 215-220.

Timotijevic L and Barnett J (2006) Managing the Possible Health Risks of Mobile Telecommunications: Public Understandings of Precautionary Action and Advice, Health, Risk and Society, 8(2), 143-164.

Mechanisms

Dawe AS, Nylund R, Leszczynski D, Kuster N, Reader T, and de Pomerai D (2008). Continuous wave and simulated GSM exposure at 1.8 W/kg and 1.8 GHz do not induce hsp16-1 heat-shock gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. Bioelectromagnetics, 29, 92-99.

Dawe AS, Smith B, Thomas DWP, Greedy S, Vasic N, Gregory A, Loader B and de Pomerai D (2006). A small temperature rise may contribute towards the apparent induction by microwaves of heat-shock gene expression in the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. Bioelectromagnetics, 27(2), 88-97.

See C H, Abd-Alhameed R A, and Excell P S (2007). Computation of Electromagnetic Fields in Assemblages of Biological Cells Using a Modified Finite-Difference Time-Domain Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 55(9), 1986-1994.

Dosimetry

Cooper TG, Mann, SM, Khalid, M and Blackwell, RP (2006). Public exposure to radio waves near GSM microcell and picocell base stations. J Radiat Prot, 26(2), 199-211.

Dimbylow P, Khalid M and Mann S (2003). Assessment of specific energy absorption rate (SAR) in the head from a TETRA handset. Phys Med Biol, 48, 3911-3926.

Gabriel C and Peyman A (2006). Dielectric measurement: error analysis and assessment of uncertainty. Phys Med Biol, 51, 6033-6046.

Peyman A, Holden SJ, Watts S, Perrott R and Gabriel C (2007). Dielectric properties of porcine cerebrospinal tissues at microwave frequencies: in vivo, in vitro and systematic variations with age. Phys Med Biol, 52, 2229-45.