title: Exposure to electromagnetic fields during pregnancy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Several of my patients quote recent media coverage claiming that working with home appliances could increase the risk of misarriages. What is your advice?
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Two recent epidemiologic studies from California have suggested an increased risk of miscarriages associated with exposure to magnetic fields. Even if the threshold associated with such risk is a biologic and true risk (and not just an association), it does not appear to arise from typical use of hair dryers, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, and similar home appliances.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.
authors.forename: Gideon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koren
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields / Q000009:adverse effects*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D018811:Maternal Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011247:Pregnancy