Electromagnetic fields linked with nerve disease: study

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http://www.france24.com/en/20170330-electromagnetic-fields-linked-with-nerve-disease-study
30 March 2017 - 12H00

Electromagnetic fields linked with nerve disease: study

PARIS (AFP) -
Pilots, welders and other workers who are persistently exposed to high levels of electromagnetic fields may be at higher risk of developing deadly motor neurone disease, according to a study published Thursday. Research in The BMJ drew a link between such exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive degeneration of the motor nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

There is currently no cure, and those affected usually die within a few years of diagnosis. The disease is very rare, occurring on average among two new cases per 100,000 people every year, most typically among individuals aged between 55 and 65.

"Those whose jobs had exposed them to high levels of extremely low electromagnetic fields were more than twice as likely to develop ALS as those who had never been exposed," according to researchers led by Roel Vermeulen, a professor at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.

Low-frequency electromagnetic fields are generated by electrical appliances and electrical tools and the power grid. Earlier studies have suggested ALS may be associated with close workplace exposure to these fields, but the link has proven very difficult to establish. Other suspected sources of the nerve disease are electric shocks, solvents, metal and pesticides.
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[Xipe Totec]

1. Is there some peer reviewed document backing up this claim? nt

[WePurrsevere]

2. Here's what I've found so far...

From the BMJ but it doesn't appear to be peer reviewed.
http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j1600

There's been research on this done previously that I had heard about. Here's more on that:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=amyotrophic+lateral+sclerosis+electromagnetic+fields&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1

[TexasProgresive]

3. Considering that most of us are surrounded by electro-magnetic fields.

Our houses have electrical wiring in most of the walls which are constantly emitting a EM aura of 60 HZ. This being the case the researchers need to use a control population of people who aren't so heavily exposed like the Old Order Amish. Some other factors to be eliminated would be UV, metals and the chemicals used in flux by welders and cosmic and solar radiation by pilots.