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      Risks for Central Nervous System Diseases among Mobile Phone Subscribers: A Danish Retrospective Cohort Study

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          The aim of this study was to investigate a possible link between cellular telephone use and risks for various diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). We conducted a large nationwide cohort study of 420 095 persons whose first cellular telephone subscription was between 1982 and 1995, who were followed through 2003 for hospital contacts for a diagnosis of a CNS disorder. Standardized hospitalization ratios (SHRs) were derived by dividing the number of hospital contacts in the cohort by the number expected in the Danish population. The SHRs were increased by 10–20% for migraine and vertigo. No associations were seen for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis or epilepsy in women. SHRs decreased by 30–40% were observed for dementia (Alzheimer disease, vascular and other dementia), Parkinson disease and epilepsy among men. In analyses restricted to subscribers of 10 years or more, the SHRs remained similarly increased for migraine and vertigo and similarly decreased for Alzheimer disease and other dementia and epilepsy (in men); the other SHRs were close to unity. In conclusion, the excesses of migraine and vertigo observed in this first study on cellular telephones and CNS disease deserve further attention. An interplay of a healthy cohort effect and reversed causation bias due to prodromal symptoms impedes detection of a possible association with dementia and Parkinson disease. Identification of the factors that result in a healthy cohort might be of interest for elucidation of the etiology of these diseases.

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                Contributors
                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS ONE
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                1932-6203
                2009
                5 February 2009
                : 4
                : 2
                : e4389
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
                [2 ]Memory Disorder Research Group, Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
                University of Louisville, United States of America
                Author notes

                Conceived and designed the experiments: JS JHO CJ. Performed the experiments: JS GW JHO CJ. Analyzed the data: JS CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS GW CJ. Wrote the paper: JS GW JHO CJ.

                Article
                08-PONE-RA-06911R1
                10.1371/journal.pone.0004389
                2632742
                19194493
                014fc97a-8623-4944-b950-9ad7f98c0a6d
                Schüz et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
                History
                : 17 October 2008
                : 17 December 2008
                Page count
                Pages: 5
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                Neurological Disorders
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