CHANGES IN THE BLOOD SYSTEM DURING CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO A SUPERHIGH-FREQUENCY FIELD
Ye. V. Gemblitskiy, F. A. Kolosnik, V. M. Malyshev · 1969
Soviet researchers documented blood system changes from chronic microwave exposure in 1969, providing early evidence of EMF bioeffects.
Plain English Summary
This 1969 Soviet research examined how chronic exposure to superhigh-frequency electromagnetic fields affects the human blood system, focusing on changes in white blood cells and other blood components. The study represents early scientific investigation into microwave radiation's biological effects on human hematology. This research contributed to the growing body of evidence that electromagnetic fields can produce measurable changes in human blood parameters.
Why This Matters
This study holds particular significance as one of the earliest documented investigations into microwave radiation's effects on human blood systems. Published in 1969, it emerged during the Cold War era when both Soviet and Western researchers were actively studying electromagnetic field bioeffects, often driven by military applications. The focus on 'superhigh-frequency' fields and chronic exposure patterns suggests researchers were already concerned about prolonged microwave exposure effects on human physiology.
What makes this research especially relevant today is its examination of blood system changes, which remain a consistent finding in modern EMF research. The leukocyte focus is particularly noteworthy since white blood cells are crucial for immune function. While we don't have the specific findings, the fact that Soviet scientists were documenting blood parameter changes from microwave exposure over 50 years ago demonstrates that concerns about EMF bioeffects aren't new or unfounded.
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Study Details
To analyze the effects of chronic exposure to a superhigh-frequency field on the blood system, particularly focusing on changes in leukocyte counts and other blood parameters.
Study of the blood system in 100 individuals subjected to long-term exposure to a superhigh-frequenc...
The hemoglobin and erythrocyte content for all subjects was at normal levels. The number of leukocyt...
The development of changes in the blood system from a chronic exposure to a superhigh-frequency field can be pictured in the following way. During the early stages of the disease there is for the most part a well-expressed instability in the number of leukocytes. It is more common to note a tendency to leukocytosis than to leukopenia. The indices of the leukocytic formula are characterized by the same inconstancy. With an almost identical frequency there is a relative lymphocytosis, monocytosis and normal leukogram. An instability in the number of leukocytes and the indices of the leukocytic formula is increasingly replaced as the disease progresses with a more stable decrease in the number of leukocytes. During the early stages of the disease the bone marrow is not morphologically modified. Accordingly, it can be assumed that variations in the number of leukocytes at this time are caused primarily by the regulatory function of the nervous and endocrinal systems. This hypothesis is confirmed, first of all, by the fact that functional impairments of the nervous and endocrinal systems in these patients always precede blood changes and, second, by the fact that with a normalization of these impairments under the influence of rest and general strengthening treatment, the blood indices are normalized. In the case of a stable leukopenia the bone marrow also remains morphologically unchanged; less frequently there is some hyperplasia. In some patients with a stable leukopenia there is an asthenic reaction of the bone marrow to the injection of a leukostimulator (sodium nucleinate). Such patients require hospital treatment and must without fail be relieved of working with microwave generators. The differences in the state of the peripheral blood and bone marrow in individual patients can be attributed in part to autoimmune shifts causing an increased decay of leukocytes in the blood.
Show BibTeX
@article{changes_in_the_blood_system_during_chronic_exposure_to_a_superhigh_frequency_fie_g3969,
author = {Ye. V. Gemblitskiy and F. A. Kolosnik and V. M. Malyshev},
title = {CHANGES IN THE BLOOD SYSTEM DURING CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO A SUPERHIGH-FREQUENCY FIELD},
year = {1969},
}