Table 8 Associations between RF-EMF exposures and having a ‘Painful texting thumb’ (symptom)
Symptom | Symptom categories (N for unadjusted model/N for adjusted model) | Exposure | Exposure categories (N for unadjusted model/N for adjusted model) | Unadjusted OR (95% CI) for each exposure category | Adjusted OR (95% CI) for each exposure category | Confounders in model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Painful texting thumb | No (268/212) | Cordless calls > 10 minutes weekly | 0 (62/46) | 1 | 1 | Cold/flu+ |
1 or 2 times weekly (44/40) | 1-2 (103/84) | 4.11 (1.16-14.54)* | 3.65 (0.99-13.53) | Sex | ||
3 times to most (17/17) | 3-9 (84/65) | 3.88 (1.90-14.11) | 2.54 (0.66-9.83) | Age | ||
10-120 (80/74) | 9.61 (2.77-33.42)** | 7.02 (1.93-25.53)* | ||||
Painful texting thumb | No, hardly ever (287/287) | Minutes on cordless phone daily | 0- < 5 (147/147) | 1 | 1 | Cold/flu+ |
1 or 2 weekly (42/42) | 5-15 (103/103) | 2.34 (1.17-4.71) | 2.26 (1.12-4.54) | |||
3 or more times weekly (17/17) | <15-240 (96/96) | 3.37 (1.73-6.57)** | 4.54 (1.62-6.19)** | |||
Painful texting thumb | No, hardly ever (-/287) | Cellphone calls >10 minutes weekly | 0 (-/274) | Model invalid | 1 | Cold/flu+ |
1 or 2 times weekly (-/45) | 1-6 (-/65) | 1.37 (0.70-2.70) | Sex- ♂ | |||
3 or more times weekly (-/19) | 7-35 (-/12) | 4.43 (1.27-15.44) | Age | |||
Painful texting thumb | No (157/157) | Billed texts sent weekly | 0 (42/42) | 1 | 1 | Cold/flu+ |
1 or 2 times weekly (27/27) | 1-99 (74/74) | 7.55 (0.96-59.3) | 6.39 (0.80-51.2) | TV in bedroom | ||
3 to most of the time (10/10) | 100-499 (63/63) | 16.46 (2.14-126.3)* | 11.94 (1.52-94.1)* | Age | ||
500+ (15/15) | 27.19 (2.99-247.4)* | 21.54 (2.24-207.5) |