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Power lines and leukemia risk in children
Children who live near high-voltage lines have a higher risk of leukemia?
The proximity of power lines escalates to the children the risk of suffering from leukemia.
The evolution of the epidemiological studies over the past few years confirms this influence.
Below we add a link, to the EMF Portal website, which summarizes these studies.
The reason why the power lines can cause a higher risk of leukemia for children?
According to investigations, referred on this page, the genetic ability to repair DNA damage caused by magnetic fields of power lines, is not equal in all children.
The essential difference is in what is known as polymorphism, and the children with a genetic variant defective do not have the same capacity for DNA repair, when this is affected by electromagnetic fields.
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