Prenatal and Postnatal Cell Phone Exposures and Headaches in Children.

Madhuri Sudan, Leeka Kheifets, Onyebuchi Arah, Jorn Olsen, Lonnie Zeltzer
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Abstract

Objective: Children today are exposed to cell phones early in life, and may be at the greatest risk if exposure is harmful to health. We investigated associations between cell phone exposures and headaches in children.

Study design: The Danish National Birth Cohort enrolled pregnant women between 1996 and 2002. When their children reached age seven years, mothers completed a questionnaire regarding the child's health, behaviors, and exposures. We used multivariable adjusted models to relate prenatal only, postnatal only, or both prenatal and postnatal cell phone exposure to whether the child had migraines and headache-related symptoms.

Results: Our analyses included data from 52,680 children. Children with cell phone exposure had higher odds of migraines and headache-related symptoms than children with no exposure. The odds ratio for migraines was 1.30 (95% confidence interval: 1.01-1.68) and for headache-related symptoms was 1.32 (95% confidence interval: 1.23-1.40) for children with both prenatal and postnatal exposure.

Conclusions: In this study, cell phone exposures were associated with headaches in children, but the associations may not be causal given the potential for uncontrolled confounding and misclassification in observational studies such as this. However, given the widespread use of cell phones, if a causal effect exists it would have great public health impact.

产前和产后手机暴露与儿童头痛。
目的:今天的儿童在生命早期接触手机,如果接触对健康有害,可能面临最大的风险。我们调查了儿童接触手机和头痛之间的关系。研究设计:丹麦国家出生队列纳入了1996年至2002年间的孕妇。当她们的孩子长到7岁时,母亲们完成了一份关于孩子健康、行为和暴露的调查问卷。我们使用多变量调整模型将仅产前、产后或产前和产后接触手机与儿童是否患有偏头痛和头痛相关症状联系起来。结果:我们的分析包括52680名儿童的数据。与没有接触手机的儿童相比,接触手机的儿童患偏头痛和头痛相关症状的几率更高。产前和产后暴露的儿童偏头痛的比值比为1.30(95%可信区间:1.01-1.68),头痛相关症状的比值比为1.32(95%可信区间:1.23-1.40)。结论:在这项研究中,手机暴露与儿童头痛有关,但考虑到在此类观察性研究中可能存在无法控制的混淆和错误分类,这种联系可能不是因果关系。然而,鉴于手机的广泛使用,如果存在因果关系,它将对公众健康产生巨大影响。
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