Research Article

An In Situ and In Silico Evaluation of Biophysical Effects of 27 MHz Electromagnetic Whole Body Humans Exposure Expressed by the Limb Current

Table 3

The correlation between the limb induced current measured at volunteers () exposed to the electromagnetic field (27 MHz) near the rod antenna and the volunteers’ anthropometric properties.

Anthropometric propertiesExposure variants
1a1b1c2a2b2c

Height0.74<0.0010.650.0010.490.0140.70<0.0010.630.0010.640.001
Body mass0.67<0.0010.74<0.0010.82<0.0010.63<0.0010.74<0.0010.75<0.001
BV0.76<0.0010.80<0.0010.84<0.0010.71<0.0010.80<0.0010.81<0.001
BMI0.310.1470.460.0250.600.0020.290.1650.460.0220.460.022
WC0.320.1280.470.0200.590.0020.270.1970.440.0330.500.012
CC0.390.0590.500.0140.650.0010.370.0760.490.0160.540.007

Body mass index: BMI = body mass/(height)2; body volume index: BV = height body mass; WC = waist circumference; CC = chest circumference; variant 1 of exposure: the axe of volunteer’s body 60 cm away from the antenna; variant 2 of exposure: the axe of volunteer’s body 110 cm away from the antenna; a: the volunteers used unified shoes; b: the volunteers used their own (regular) shoes; c: the volunteers were barefooted; strong, statistically significant correlations (, ) are in bold; -Pearson correlation coefficients and significance level .