Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Is there a risk for interaction between mobile phones and single lead VDD pacemakers?
Nowak B, Rosocha S, Zellerhoff C, Liebrich A, Himmrich E, Voigtlander T, Meyer J · 1996
View Original AbstractMobile phones showed no interference with pacemakers even in direct contact at 2 watts, higher than today's typical smartphone emissions.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested whether mobile phones could interfere with single lead VDD pacemakers (a specific type of heart device) by placing a 2-watt cellular phone directly on the skin of 31 patients near their pacemakers. They found no interference with any of the three different pacemaker models tested, even when the devices were programmed to their most sensitive settings.
Study Details
To study is there a risk for interaction between mobile phones and single lead VDD pacemakers
We evaluated 31 patients with three types of single lead VDD pacemakers: 12 Unity, 292-07 (Intermedi...
In our group of patients with three different types of single lead VDD pacemakers, no interference c...
Therefore, the risk of interference seems to be low for the VDD pacemakers tested, although our study design does not allow to entirely exclude the possibility of interference from a mobile phone.
Show BibTeX
@article{b_1996_is_there_a_risk_3274,
author = {Nowak B and Rosocha S and Zellerhoff C and Liebrich A and Himmrich E and Voigtlander T and Meyer J},
title = {Is there a risk for interaction between mobile phones and single lead VDD pacemakers?},
year = {1996},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8904534/},
}