Comparing non-specific physical symptoms in environmentally sensitive patients: Prevalence, duration, functional status and illness behavior

Abstract

Even after adjustment for medical and psychiatric morbidity, environmentally sensitive individuals experience poorer health, increased illness behavior and more severe NSPS. The number and duration of self-reported NSPS are important components of symptom severity and are associated with characteristics similar to those of NSPS in primary care. The substantial overlap between the sensitive groups strengthens the notion that different types of sensitivities might be part of one, broader environmental illness.

Mobile phone use and risk of brain neoplasms and other cancers: prospective study

“…It was initially planned to have a study based on some scientific papers, related to the effects of electromagnetic fields on living organisms [3][4][5][6], using databases such as Scopus, IEEE Xplore digital library, Science Direct, Electro Magnetic Field website (EMF) [12]; consultations were also undertaken with international bodies issuing recommendations in this regard: ITU, The International Commission on NonIonizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Thereafter, a study on Colombian current regulations was carried out, against the limitation and mitigation of adverse effects caused by the infrastructure of wireless telecommunications, i.e., the rules at different levels (constitution, law, decree, resolution).…”

“…Another disease related to the issue of NIR produced by mobile telephone systems, is the hypersensitivity that such fields may develop; in 2014 BALIATSAS C. published an article synthesizing the results of the case studies involving 5,789 patients in Netherlands and finding out that 5,073 were not sensitive, 514 were sensitive to general components from the environment and 202 were hypersensitive to electromagnetic fields, this figure reaches only 3.5% but even when levels are very low, there are a high sensitivity to such fields [3].…”

“…After the date by which Colombia introduced the regulations in force, new recommendations have been proposed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and new scientific articles have been published [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], confirming the need to proper control over the deployment of wireless telecommunications infrastructure. For this reason and by studying success cases regulations applied in other countries such as Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Italy and Salvador, the regulations update is needed in Colombia.…”

The relationship of modern health worries to non-specific physical symptoms and perceived environmental sensitivity: A study combining self-reported and general practice data

“…Similar to MHW, such subjective environmental sensitivities are associated with more NSPS, poorer perceived health and increased illness behavior particularly related to alternative therapies compared to the broader population [24]. In contrast to sufferers' experiences, the attributed causes are often not supported by scientific evidence [7,23], while the reported health complaints are not fully explained by medical or psychiatric morbidity [24].…”

“…Due to the documented overlap in terms of behavioral and health characteristics and co-occurrence with other idiopathic intolerances, environmental sensitivities may share similar psychophysiological mechanisms, being variants of a broader condition, usually referred to as idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) [24][25][26].…”