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Atmospherics are very short naturally occurring electromagnetic impulses of between 4 and 50 kHz. In this review we summarize our results concerning the correlations between certain spectra of atmospherics and several biological and pathological parameters.
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Hoffmann, G., Vogr, S., Baumer, H. et al. Significant correlations between certain spectra of atmospherics and different biological and pathological parameters. Int J Biometeorol 34, 247–250 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01041838
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