title: On the microwave exposure.
abstract: During the last decades the use of microwaves has been common in the industry, medicine, household and armed forces. According to the literature microwaves may especially cause lens opacities and other serious health disturbances. The authors of this paper examined 121 radar workers, but nothing was found which could be connected to microwaves. For example, the amount of lens opacities had correlation only to the age of the patients, but not to the exposure time of microwaves. The exposure duration varied from 0 to 28 years and the age of the patients between 18 and 59 years.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology*; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008872:Microwaves / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D008887:Military Medicine; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D011825:Radar