Hyland G J
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Lancet. 2000 Nov 25;356(9244):1833-6. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)03243-8.
Although safety guidelines--to which mobile telephones and their base-stations conform--do protect against excessive microwave heating, there is evidence that the low intensity, pulsed radiation currently used can exert subtle non-thermal influences. If these influences entail adverse health consequences, current guidelines would be inadequate. This review will focus on this possibility. The radiation used is indeed of very low intensity, but an oscillatory similitude between this pulsed microwave radiation and certain electrochemical activities of the living human being should prompt concern. However, being so inherently dependent on aliveness, non-thermal effects cannot be expected to be as robust as thermal ones, as is indeed found; nor can everyone be expected to be affected in the same way by exposure to the same radiation. Notwithstanding uncertainty about whether the non-thermal influences reported do adversely affect health, there are consistencies between some of these effects and the neurological problems reported by some mobile-telephone users and people exposed longterm to base-station radiation. These should be pointers for future research.
尽管移动电话及其基站所遵循的安全准则确实能防止过度的微波加热，但有证据表明，目前所使用的低强度脉冲辐射会产生微妙的非热效应。如果这些效应会带来不良健康后果，那么现行准则将是不充分的。本综述将聚焦于这种可能性。所使用的辐射强度确实非常低，但这种脉冲微波辐射与人类活体的某些电化学活动之间的振荡相似性应引起关注。然而，由于非热效应本质上如此依赖于生物活性，预计其不会像热效应那样强烈，实际情况也确实如此；同样，不能期望每个人在接触相同辐射时都会受到相同方式的影响。尽管对于所报道的非热效应是否确实对健康有不利影响存在不确定性，但其中一些效应与一些移动电话用户以及长期暴露于基站辐射的人群所报告的神经问题之间存在一致性。这些应成为未来研究的线索。
