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SWEDISH BOFFINS have worked out that mobile phones are more likely to cause brain tumours in the countryside than in the cities. Research findings recently published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, here, says the risk is higher in the countryside because that base stations are further apart in remote areas the mobile phones send out stronger signals. Professor Lennart Hardell, of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, said those who lived in rural areas and had used the phones for more than three years were three times more likely to be diagnosed with a tumour than those who lived in the city. Those who had used mobile phones for more than five years were four times more at risk of having a tumour than city dwellers. He thinks that only reason for this could be because of the telcos use up-rated base stations. Although he does admit that there might be all sorts of other health risks that cause brain tumours in people in rural areas and it might be a bit unfair to blame mobiles. We understand that filling in EU subsidy forms does most farmer's heads in, and then there are always the badgers with their old style nuclear reactors. The report flies in the face of other research that says health risks from mobiles are small. Hardell thinks that brain tumours may only be discovered in users after a period of 10-year mobile phone usage. The study looked at 1470 healthy people and 1429 malignant and benign brain tumours. |