Review of the scientific evidence on the individual sensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EHS).

IF 3 4区 医学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Reviews on Environmental Health Pub Date : 2022-09-27 DOI:10.1515/reveh-2021-0038
Dariusz Leszczynski
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Abstract

Part of the population considers themselves as sensitive to the man-made electromagnetic radiation (EMF) emitted by powerlines, electric wiring, electric home appliance and the wireless communication devices and networks. Sensitivity is characterized by a broad variety of non-specific symptoms that the sensitive people claim to experience when exposed to EMF. While the experienced symptoms are currently considered as a real life impairment, the factor causing these symptoms remains unclear. So far, scientists were unable to find causality link between symptoms experienced by sensitive persons and the exposures to EMF. However, as presented in this review, the executed to-date scientific studies, examining sensitivity to EMF, are of poor quality to find the link between EMF exposures and sensitivity symptoms of some people. It is logical to consider that the sensitivity to EMF exists but the scientific methodology used to find it is of insufficient quality. It is time to drop out psychology driven provocation studies that ask about feelings-based non-specific symptoms experienced by volunteers under EMF exposure. Such research approach produces only subjective and therefore highly unreliable data that is insufficient to prove, or to disprove, causality link between EHS and EMF. There is a need for a new direction in studying sensitivity to EMF. The basis for it is the notion of a commonly known phenomenon of individual sensitivity, where individuals' responses to EMF depend on the genetic and epigenetic properties of the individual. It is proposed here that new studies, combining provocation approach, where volunteers are exposed to EMF, and high-throughput technologies of transcriptomics and proteomics are used to generate objective data, detecting molecular level biochemical responses of human body to EMF.

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个人电磁场敏感性的科学证据综述。
部分市民认为自己对电力线、电线、家用电器及无线通讯装置及网络发出的人造电磁辐射敏感。敏感的特点是敏感的人声称在接触电磁场时会出现各种各样的非特异性症状。虽然所经历的症状目前被认为是一种现实生活障碍,但引起这些症状的因素仍不清楚。到目前为止,科学家们还无法找到敏感人群所经历的症状与接触电磁场之间的因果关系。然而,正如本综述所述,迄今为止进行的关于电磁场敏感性的科学研究质量较差,无法发现电磁场暴露与某些人的敏感性症状之间的联系。合乎逻辑地认为,对电磁场的敏感性是存在的,但用于发现它的科学方法质量不足。现在是时候放弃心理学驱动的挑衅研究了,这些研究询问志愿者在电磁场暴露下经历的基于感觉的非特异性症状。这种研究方法只产生主观的,因此高度不可靠的数据,不足以证明或反驳EHS与EMF之间的因果关系。电动势敏感性的研究需要一个新的方向。它的基础是一种众所周知的个体敏感性现象的概念,其中个体对电磁场的反应取决于个体的遗传和表观遗传特性。本文提出了新的研究,结合激发方法,志愿者暴露于电磁场中,并使用高通量转录组学和蛋白质组学技术来生成客观数据,检测人体对电磁场的分子水平生化反应。
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Reviews on Environmental Health
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期刊介绍: Reviews on Environmental Health (REVEH) is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to fill the need for publication of review articles on hot topics in the field of environmental health. Reviews on Environmental Health aims to be an inspiring forum for scientists, environmentalists, physicians, engineers, and students who are concerned with aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physiological and psychosociological interactions between man and physical, chemical, biological, and social factors in the environment. Reviews on Environmental Health is an important niche served by no other journal, that’s being a site where thoughtful reviews can be published on a variety of subjects related to both health and environment. One challenge is to bridge the research on environmental causes of disease with the clinical practice of medicine. Reviews on Environmental Health is a source of integrated information on environment and health subjects that will be of value to the broad scientific community, whether students, junior and senior professionals, or clinicians.
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