title: PERSONAL MEASURES OF POWER-FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELD EXPOSURE AMONG MEN FROM AN INFERTILITY CLINIC: DISTRIBUTION, TEMPORAL VARIABILITY AND CORRELATION WITH THEIR FEMALE PARTNERS' EXPOSURE.
abstract: Power-frequency magnetic field exposure science as it relates to men and couples have not been explored despite the advantage of this information in the design and interpretation of reproductive health epidemiology studies. This analysis examined the distribution and temporal variability of exposures in men, and the correlation of exposures within couples using data from a longitudinal study of 25 men and their female partners recruited from an infertility clinic. The average and 90th percentile demonstrated fair to good reproducibility, whereas the maximum showed poor reproducibility over repeated sampling days, each separated by a median of 4.6 weeks. Average magnetic field exposures were also strongly correlated within couples, suggesting that one partner's data could be used as a surrogate in the absence of data from the other for this metric. Environment was also an important effect modifier in these explored matters. These issues should be considered in future relevant epidemiology studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.|Center for Occupational & Environmental Health Risk Assessment, Exponent, Inc., 475 14th Street, Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94612, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Building I, 14th Floor, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.|Vincent Memorial Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
authors.forename: Russ
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hauser
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Maynard
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Richard L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Neitzel
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Electric Power Research Institute, 3420 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kavet
authors.affiliation: Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Building I, 14th Floor, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morey
authors.affiliation: Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Building I, 14th Floor, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA meekerj@umich.edu.
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Meeker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007246:Infertility / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D060526:Magnetic Fields / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011379:Prognosis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology