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

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1603-1608

  Eltiti, Stacy ^a   Wallace, Denise ^a   Ridgewell, Anna ^a   Zougkou, Konstantina ^a   Russo, Riccardo ^a   Sepulveda, Francisco ^a   Mirshekar Syahkal, D ^a   Rasor, Paul ^a   Deeble, Roger ^a   Fox, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base station; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic hypersensitivity; Mobile phone; Well being

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CELLULAR PHONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 38449121558     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10286     Document Type: Article

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