But these 4 patients had also increased levels of transferrin, so they appeared to have iron deficiency, but really there was no deficiency, and this corresponded to nothing known. As I am curious as a clinician, I wondered why they had this biological profile, and I found they were all living in the same village, Coutiches. So I went there. It's close to Douai, not very far from Lille. The village has approximately 2000 inhabitants, altitude varies from 24 to 31 meters.
Some houses are right under the lines.
Measures of EM fields have been done repeatedly. No woman was pregnant, nobody took iron supplementation, no one had an inflammatory syndrome - those are interference causes. Each person was living at least 8 hours in this perimeter. Then we made up a control population, with the help of Lille blood transfusion center, people who were recent blood donors, matched in age and gender. Here are the first results.