Video display terminals and spontaneous abortions

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• Personal Author:
  Coles EC ; Connelly M ; Grajewski, Barbara A. ; Murray, William E. Jr. ; Newcombe RG ; Schnorr, Teresa M. ; Slesin L
• Description:
  Letters to the editor and a reply discuss the validity of a NIOSH study on video display terminals and spontaneous abortions. The first letter calls into question several methodological flaws of the original research which concluded that there was no increased risk of spontaneous abortion from exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by video display terminals. The second letter noted that there appeared to be a difference in the number of pregnancies between the exposed and nonexposed groups and posed the question of whether very early fetal loss may have occurred in the exposed group and gone undetected. In the third letter the original researchers explain more completely the various levels of radiation emitted by the video display terminals and restate their conclusion that the data did not suggest any increase in spontaneous abortion rate due to these exposures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Radiation Safety Urogenital Diseases Urogenital System
• Keywords:
  Electromagnetic-radiation Humans Office-equipment Office-workers Radiation-exposure Radiation-hazards Reproductive-hazards Reproductive-system-disorders Video-display-terminals
• ISSN:
  0028-4793
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  325
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00202570
• Citation:
  N Engl J Med 1991 Sep; 325(11):811-813
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• NORA Priority Area:
  Reproductive System Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  New England Journal of Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f61e94da23511b7c3a04d1d922c1e1e56edfc74925a68a7cac141dad64a570d3f2a6e6f2658fbe728c12d5808c08c4430aa87e116f5ff5aafdd2556dd553cc1c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205876/cdc_205876_DS1.pdf
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