The "Mainzer EMF-Wachhund": results from a watchdog project on self-reported health complaints attributed to exposure to electromagnetic fields epidem.

["Mainzer EMF-Wachhund": Ergebnisse eines Projekts zu selbstberichteten Gesundheitsbeschwerden, die mit der Exposition bei elektromagnetischen Feldern in Zusammenhang gebracht werden]

Ziel der Studie (lt. Autor)

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Endpunkt/Art der Risikoabschätzung

• Unwohlsein: Kopfschmerzen, Müdigkeit, Konzentrations-Schwierigkeiten, erhöhter Herzschlag, Schwindel, Sehstörung, Appetit-Verlust, Angst sowie weitere Symptome
• Elektrosensibilität: selbst-eingestufte Elektrosensibilität
• Schlafstörung

Exposition

• • 16 2/3 Hz (Bahnstrom)
  • 50/60 Hz
  • elektrisches Feld
  • magnetisches Feld
• • Hochspannungsfreileitung
  • Umspannwerk
  • Haushaltsgerät
  • Mobilfunk
  • analoges Mobiltelefon
  • digitales Mobiltelefon
  • Mobilfunk-Basisstation
  • Schnurlostelefon
• • häusliche Exposition
  • persönliches Umfeld

Abschätzung

• Fragebogen: Quellen, die die Teilnehmer ihren Symptomen zuschreiben

Expositionsgruppen

Population

• Gruppe:
  • Männer
  • Frauen
• Beobachtungszeitraum: Oktober 2003 - März 2005
• Studienort: Deutschland (Rheinland-Pfalz)

Studiengröße

Ergebnisse (lt. Autor)

Studie gefördert durch

• Ministerium für Umwelt, Rheinland-Pfalz (Ministry for the Environment of Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany)

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