Is the occurrence of electromagnetic hypersensitivity related to sensitivity to air pollution and weather factors?
The main research topics in 2020 and 2022 were the relationship between the frequency of electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) and air pollutants, such as suspended dust (PM2.5 and PM10), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and the relationship between EHS and weather factors or parameters (station-level pressure, relative humidity, duration of sunshine), wind speed, wind gusts, cloud cover, average winter air temperature, and average summer air temperature) that describe the environmental levels of electromagnetic fields from the telecommunications infrastructure. The research was carried out in the form of surveys among residents of selected Polish cities. The strongest qualification criterion for the group of people declaring themselves hyperelectrosensitive allowed us to estimate the maximum incidence of EHS in the Polish population at 1.8% among the 2020 study group and 1.6% in 2022. The results showed no strong correlation between EHS and sensitivity to weather factors or air pollution. The causal relationship between environmental parameters and the number of individuals classified as EHS+ with the highest probability cannot be expected. The results showed that, among people who declare themselves hyperelectrosensitive, there is a significantly higher percentage of those who declare themselves hypersensitive to environmental pollution and weather.
Authors
- Grzegorz Tatoń (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-6892)
- Gabriela Kanclerz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4446-7388)
- Dorota Kantor
Institutions
- Jagiellonian University (PL)
- Cracow University of Technology (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- AIMS Biophysics
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3934/biophy.2025014
- Primary Topic
- Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00