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Disturbed sleep in individuals with Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF): Melatonin assessment as a biological marker.
Andrianome S, Hugueville L, de Seze R, Hanot-Roy M, Blazy K, Gamez C, Selmaoui B. · 2016
View Original AbstractPeople with electromagnetic sensitivity have real sleep problems, but normal melatonin levels suggest the cause isn't disrupted hormone production.
Plain English Summary
Researchers compared melatonin levels (a hormone that regulates sleep) between 30 people who report electromagnetic sensitivity and 25 people who don't, without exposing either group to EMF sources. While the sensitive group scored significantly worse on sleep quality questionnaires, both groups had identical melatonin levels in their saliva and urine. This suggests that whatever is causing sleep problems in electromagnetically sensitive individuals, it's not affecting their body's natural melatonin production.
Study Details
In this study, we compared levels of melatonin between a sensitive group (IEI-EMF, n = 30) and a non-sensitive control group (non IEI-EMF, n = 25) without exposure to electromagnetic sources.
Three questionnaires were used to evaluate the subjective quality and sleep quantity: the Epworth Sl...
Despite significantly different sleep scores between the two groups, with a lower score in the IEI-E...
Show BibTeX
@article{s_2016_disturbed_sleep_in_individuals_2891,
author = {Andrianome S and Hugueville L and de Seze R and Hanot-Roy M and Blazy K and Gamez C and Selmaoui B.},
title = {Disturbed sleep in individuals with Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF): Melatonin assessment as a biological marker.},
year = {2016},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26969907/},
}