Mortality of persons resident in the vicinity of electricity transmission facilities.
Mortality of persons resident in the vicinity of electricity transmission facilities.
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输电设施附近居民的死亡率。
DOI：
10.1038/bjc.1986.45
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发表时间：
1986-02
影响因子：
8.8
通讯作者：
McDowall ME
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作者：
McDowall ME
一些研究已经提出了暴露于电场和/或磁场可能对健康有害的可能性，特别是通过促进或引发癌症。为了调查输电系统是否对公众健康构成长期危害，我们对一九七一年人口普查时被确定为居住在输电设施附近的近8，000人的死亡情况进行了跟踪调查，直至一九八三年年底。所有在预定区域内确定的输电装置都包括在研究中，因此，研究组中的大部分被认为是居住在相对较低电压的变电站附近。总体死亡率低于预期，没有出现重大健康危害的证据。唯一具有统计学意义的超额死亡率是肺癌（在所有妇女中，以及在离设施最近的人中）;在没有吸烟数据的情况下，这一结果难以解释，也没有得到其他证据的支持，但似乎不是由于研究组的社会阶层分布。这项研究并不支持先前报道的暴露于电磁场与急性骨髓性白血病、其他淋巴癌和自杀的关联。
Several studies have raised the possibility that exposure to electrical and/or magnetic fields may be injurious to health in particular by the promotion or initiation of cancer. To investigate whether the electricity transmission system presents a long term hazard to public health, the mortality of nearly 8,000 persons, identified as living in the vicinity of electrical transmission facilities at the time of the 1971 Population Census, has been followed to the end of 1983. All identified transmission installations within pre-defined areas were included in the study with the result that the greater part of the study group were believed to be resident near relatively low voltage sub-stations. Overall mortality was lower than expected and no evidence of major health hazards emerged. The only statistically significant excess mortality was for lung cancer (in women overall, and in persons living closest to the installations); this result is difficult to interpret in the absence of smoking data, and is not supported by other evidence but does not appear to be due to the social class distribution of the study group. The study did not support previously reported associations of exposure to electro-magnetic fields with acute myeloid leukaemia, other lymphatic cancers and suicide.