Table 3.
Mean pulsometric index measurement (±SD) obtained by using UCTS in the different tissue areas investigated in temporal lobes of EHS-, MCS-, and EHS/MCS-bearing patients relative to normal concomitant controls (unpublished data).
| Temporal Lobe | Tissue Areas Analyzed | Apparently Healthy Subjects ± SD n = 84 |
EHS Patients ± SD n = 65 |
p ** | EHS-MCS Patients ± SD n = 29 |
p *** | MCS Patients ± SD n = 6 |
p **** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right | carotidian | 20.39 ± 4.33 | 12.74 ± 4.25 | <0.00001 | 12.38 ± 3.58 | <0.00001 | 12.75 ± 2.12 | 0.0004 |
| cortical-subcortical | 6.02 ± 2.90 | 5.26 ± 3.01 | 0.19 | 4.91 ± 3.04 | 0.12 | 4.25 ± 1.68 | 0.19 | |
| superficial MCA | 10.38 ± 3.99 | 7.79 ± 3.55 | 0.00055 | 7.97 ± 3.89 | 0.013 | 8.55 ± 1.97 | 0.32 | |
| deep MCA | 14.40 ± 2.44 | 7.47 ± 2.78 | <0.00001 | 7.82 ± 2.34 | <0.00001 | 8.50 ± 1.57 | <0.00001 | |
| capsulo-thalamic | 5.81 ± 0.96 | 2.14 ± 1.56 | <0.00001 | 2.22±1.57 | <0.00001 | 3.00 ± 0.59 | <0.00001 | |
| vertebro-basilar | 11.04 ± 1.65 | 8.02 ± 2.12 | <0.00001 | 8.45 ± 1.61 | <0.00001 | 7.55 ± 0.94 | <0.00001 | |
| Left | vertebro-basilar | 10.95 ± 1.81 | 5.22 ± 2.71 | <0.00001 | 5.55 ± 3.04 | <0.00001 | 5.40 ± 3.34 | <0.00001 |
| capsulo-thalamic | 5.32 ± 1.38 | 3.24 ± 2.19 | <0.00001 | 3.19 ± 2.28 | <0.00001 | 3.00 ± 2.21 | 0.0016 | |
| deep MCA | 13.89 ± 2.54 | 9.77 ± 3.36 | <0.00001 | 9.33 ± 3.19 | <0.00001 | 6.95 ± 3.92 | <0.00001 | |
| superficial MCA | 11.29 ± 4.25 | 8.63 ± 3.51 | 0.0005 | 8.81 ± 3.61 | 0.012 | 7.15 ± 2.99 | 0.039 | |
| cortical-subcortical | 6.88 ± 3.50 | 5.06 ± 2.93 | 0.004 | 5.34 ± 3.25 | 0.063 | 4.95 ± 3.00 | 0.24 | |
| carotidian | 20.58 ± 5.09 | 14.85 ± 4.55 | <0.00001 | 17.27 ± 13.58 | 0.15 | 11.90 ± 2.95 | 0.0005 |
EHS, electrohypersensitivity; MCS, multiple chemical sensitivity EHS; SD, standard deviation. ** Significance levels (p values) obtained by using the two tailed Student t-test for comparison between the EHS-bearing patients and the apparently healthy subjects used as concomitant controls. *** Significance levels (p values) obtained by using the two tailed Student t-test for comparison between the EHS-MCS-bearing patients and apparently healthy subjects used as concomitant controls. **** Significance levels (p values) obtained by using the two tailed Student t-test for comparison between the MCS-bearing patients and apparently healthy subjects used as concomitant controls. Bold values indicates no-statistical significance.