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

Aim of study (acc. to author)

Further details

Endpoint/type of risk estimation

• symptoms of discomfort: headache, tiredness, concentration difficulties, increased heart beat, vertigo, impaired vision, loss of appetite, anxiety, and other symptoms
• electromagnetic hypersensitivity: self-classified hypersensitivity
• sleep disturbances

Exposure

• • 16 2/3 Hz (train)
  • 50/60 Hz
  • electric field
  • magnetic field
• • power transmission line
  • electrical substation
  • other domestic appliance
  • mobile communications
  • analog mobile phone
  • digital mobile phone
  • mobile phone base station
  • cordless phone
• • residential
  • personal

Assessment

• questionnaire: sources that participants attribute to their symptoms

Exposure groups

Population

• Group:
  • men
  • women
• Observation period: October 2003 - March 2005
• Study location: Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)

Study size

Results (acc. to author)

Study funded by

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

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