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Maria Feychting

Maria Feychting

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83
Citations
28681
World Ranking
15501
National Ranking
284

Overview

Maria Feychting is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has a research portfolio primarily situated within the field of Medicine. Their work includes a significant focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, and Genetics.

The scientist has concentrated research efforts on topics such as:

  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Family Support in Illness

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

  • Mats Talbäck
  • Giorgio Tettamanti
  • Hanna Mogensen
  • Joachim Schüz
  • Fang Fang

Their publications appear regularly in a set of journals and venues, predominantly:

  • Environment International
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • PLoS Medicine

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Germline Elongator mutations in Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma" (2020, Nature)
  • "Prioritizing health outcomes when assessing the effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: A survey among experts" (2020, Environment International)
  • "Burden and prevalence of prognostic factors for severe COVID-19 in Sweden" (2020, European Journal of Epidemiology)
  • "Long-term effect of mobile phone use on sleep quality: Results from the cohort study of mobile phone use and health (COSMOS)" (2020, Environment International)
  • "The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: A protocol for a systematic review of human observational studies" (2021, Environment International)

Best Publications

  • External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register

    Jonas F Ludvigsson;Jonas F Ludvigsson;Eva Andersson;Anders Ekbom;Maria Feychting

  • A pooled analysis of magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia.

    A Ahlbom;N Day;M Feychting;E Roman

  • The Swedish cause of death register.

    Hannah Louise Brooke;Mats Talbäck;Jesper Hörnblad;Lars Age Johansson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for glioma

    Sanjay Shete;Fay J. Hosking;Lindsay B. Robertson;Sara E. Dobbins

  • Magnetic fields and cancer in children residing near Swedish high-voltage power lines

    M Feychting;A Ahlbom

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • Spectrum and prevalence of genetic predisposition in medulloblastoma: a retrospective genetic study and prospective validation in a clinical trial cohort

    Sebastian M. Waszak;Paul A. Northcott;Paul A. Northcott;Ivo Buchhalter;Giles W. Robinson

  • Mobile phone use and the risk of acoustic neuroma.

    Stefan Lönn;Anders Ahlbom;Per Hall;Maria Feychting

  • Fatty fish consumption and risk of prostate cancer

    Paul Terry;Paul Lichtenstein;Maria Feychting;Anders Ahlbom

  • Parental psychiatric disorders associated with autism spectrum disorders in the offspring.

    Julie L. Daniels;Ulla Forssen;Christina M. Hultman;Sven Cnattingius

  • The INTERPHONE study: Design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population

    Elisabeth Cardis;Lesley Richardson;Isabelle Deltour;Bruce Armstrong

  • EMF AND HEALTH

    Maria Feychting;Anders Ahlbom;Leeka Kheifets

  • Long-term mobile phone use and brain tumor risk.

    Stefan Lönn;Anders Ahlbom;Per Hall;Maria Feychting

  • Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries.

    M J Schoemaker;A J Swerdlow;A Ahlbom;A Auvinen;A Auvinen

  • Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in 5 North European countries.

    Anna Lahkola;Anssi Auvinen;Anssi Auvinen;Jani Raitanen;Jani Raitanen;Minouk J. Schoemaker

  • Cancer in Twins: Genetic and Nongenetic Familial Risk Factors

    Anders Ahlbom;Paul Lichtenstein;Håkan Malmström;Maria Feychting

  • Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumors in Children and Adolescents: A Multicenter Case–Control Study

    Denis Aydin;Maria Feychting;Joachim Schüz;Tore Tynes

  • Fish consumption and mortality from coronary heart disease.

    S E Norell;A Ahlbom;M Feychting;N L Pedersen

  • Genome-wide association study of glioma and meta-analysis.

    Preetha Rajaraman;Beatrice S. Melin;Zhaoming Wang;Zhaoming Wang;Roberta McKean-Cowdin

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Ahlbom
Anders Ahlbom Karolinska Institute
Christoffer Johansen
Christoffer Johansen Copenhagen University Hospital
Anssi Auvinen
Anssi Auvinen Tampere University
Martin Röösli
Martin Röösli Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Anthony J. Swerdlow
Anthony J. Swerdlow Institute of Cancer Research
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
J. Michael Gaziano
J. Michael Gaziano Brigham and Women's Hospital
Claudia E. Kuehni
Claudia E. Kuehni University of Bern
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health

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