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Does short-term exposure to mobile phone base station signals increase symptoms in individuals who report sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? A double-blind randomized provocation study.
Eltiti S, Wallace D, Ridgewell A, Zougkou K, Russo R, Sepulveda F, Mirshekar-Syahkal D, Rasor P, Deeble R, Fox E. · 2007
View Original AbstractCell tower signals didn't cause symptoms in sensitive individuals when they didn't know they were being exposed, suggesting psychological factors play a key role.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether people who report electromagnetic sensitivity experience symptoms when exposed to cell tower signals by comparing their reactions to real signals versus fake exposure. When participants knew what they were being exposed to, sensitive individuals reported feeling worse with real signals. However, when neither researchers nor participants knew which exposure was real (double-blind testing), the sensitive individuals showed no consistent negative reactions to the cell tower signals.
Study Details
This study used both open provocation and double-blind tests to determine if sensitive and control individuals experience more negative health effects when exposed to base station-like signals compared with sham.
Fifty-six self-reported sensitive and 120 control participants were tested in an open provocation te...
During the open provocation, sensitive individuals reported lower levels of well-being in both the g...
Short-term exposure to a typical GSM base station-like signal did not affect well-being or physiological functions in sensitive or control individuals. Sensitive individuals reported elevated levels of arousal when exposed to a UMTS signal. Further analysis, however, indicated that this difference was likely to be due to the effect of order of exposure rather than the exposure itself.
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@article{s_2007_does_shortterm_exposure_to_3011,
author = {Eltiti S and Wallace D and Ridgewell A and Zougkou K and Russo R and Sepulveda F and Mirshekar-Syahkal D and Rasor P and Deeble R and Fox E.},
title = {Does short-term exposure to mobile phone base station signals increase symptoms in individuals who report sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? A double-blind randomized provocation study.},
year = {2007},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18007992/},
}