The Influence of Electromagnetic Pollution on Living Organisms: Historical Trends and Forecasting Changes

Table 2

A synthetic summary of a historical review of epidemiological investigations.

	Field source	Examined group	Location, years	Observation and result	Literature
1	MF from power transmission lines	Children	Denver, USA, 1979	Increased risks of leukaemia, objection of lacking precision	[45]
2	MF	Children	Rhode Island	No incidents of cancer	[46]
3	MF	Various	Sweden	Decreased incidents of leukaemia; Increased incidents of brain tumour	[47]
4	MF from 220 kV and 400 kV power transmission lines distant <300 m	Children < 16	Sweden, 1960–1985	Incidents of leukaemia increased 2.4 times	[49]
5	MF	Children	Denmark	No incidents of malignant tumour; Incidents of leukaemia increased 1.6 times	[50]
6	MF	Adults	Finland	No incident, no bad influence	[51]
7	MF	Children	Stockholm, Los Anglels	Field intensities below 0.33 A·m^−1 reduce risks of leukaemia 2 times	[52, 53]
8	MF from HV power transmission lines distant >200 m and 200 m ÷ 600 m	Children	England, Wales, Iran, Norway, Tasmania	Safe filed intensity for children equal to 0.15 A·m^−1 – objection of Lacking precision	[52–57]
9	MF from power transmission lines	Railway workers	Norway	Decreased incidents of cancer	[2]
10	MF from power transmission lines and devices	Power sector workers	USA	Morbidity of cancer increased 1.2 times; 3.6% confirmed cancer incidents for field intensities exceeding 3.44 A·m^−1	[58, 59]
11	MF of 16.7 Hz and 60 Hz	Railway workers	Swiss, USA	Blood generation system disorders	[7, 8]