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🇨🇳 Chinese Study: Power Plant Workers Show Lower Testosterone After EMF Exposure

March 1, 2026 (EMFS)
Feb 28, 2026 (original)
Source: Int Arch Occup Environ Health / HCPLive
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Researchers from Zhejiang University compared 77 power plant workers with high occupational EMF exposure to 77 matched controls. The EMF-exposed group had significantly lower testosterone levels (P = 0.015) and lower testosterone/estradiol ratios, suggesting chronic EMF exposure may affect male reproductive functions.

"EMF exposure group had statistically significantly lower levels of testosterone (β = -0.3 nmol/L, P = 0.015), testosterone/estradiol (T/E2) ratio (β = -15.6, P = 0.037), and NF-κB (β = -20.8 ng/L, P = 0.045) than control group."

— Wang et al., Zhejiang University

"Chronic exposure to EMF could decrease male plasma testosterone and T/E2 ratio, and it might possibly affect reproductive functions in males."

— Study conclusion

Source

Effects of electromagnetic fields exposure on plasma hormonal and inflammatory pathway biomarkers in male workers of a power plant hcplive.com

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