Electrosensibility and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 387-394

  Leitgeb, Norbert ^a,b   Schröttner, Jörg ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Institute of Biomedical Engineering   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electric current perception; Electromagnetic pollution; EMF exposure limits; Gender difference; General population

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CURRENT PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT PERCEPTION; ELECTRO MAGNETIC POLLUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC HYPERSENSITIVITY; EMF EXPOSURE; EMF EXPOSURE LIMIT; EXPOSURE LIMITS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; GENERAL POPULATION; PERCEPTION THRESHOLDS;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POLLUTION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION PROTECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; AUSTRIA; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; FOREARM; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRIA; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0142079470     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10138     Document Type: Article

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