Effects of Nonionizing Electromagnetic Radiation
Authors not listed · 1978
Government scientists were systematically studying EMF health effects in 1978, decades before wireless technology became ubiquitous in daily life.
Plain English Summary
This 1978 government report compiled research on nonionizing electromagnetic radiation effects across multiple biological and medical disciplines. The comprehensive review covered aerospace medicine, toxicology, epidemiology, and behavioral sciences, representing an early systematic effort to understand EMF health impacts. This historical document shows that concerns about electromagnetic radiation effects on human health were being seriously investigated decades before widespread wireless technology adoption.
Why This Matters
This 1978 report represents a pivotal moment in EMF research history - government scientists were already systematically investigating electromagnetic radiation health effects long before cell phones, WiFi, and 5G became household concerns. The comprehensive scope, spanning everything from toxicology to behavioral science, demonstrates that early researchers understood EMF exposure as a multisystem health issue requiring interdisciplinary investigation.
What makes this document particularly significant is its timing. Published when most people had minimal EMF exposure compared to today's environment, it shows prescient scientific concern about a technology that would eventually saturate our daily lives. The reality is that while researchers in 1978 were studying relatively low-level exposures, we now live surrounded by electromagnetic fields thousands of times more intense from devices these early scientists could barely imagine.
Finding
As the studies indicated the electromagnetic field has a pronounced effect on the tissue and plasma factors of blood coagulation (see table). Extracts of the cardiac aorta of control and test animals sharply reduce the recalcification time, and increase the consumption of prothrombin even in dilution of 1:10,000. At the same time homogenates possess pronounced fibrinolytic activity.
In their words
“As the studies indicated the electromagnetic field has a pronounced effect on the tissue and plasma factors of blood coagulation (see table). Extracts of the cardiac aorta of control and test animals sharply reduce the recalcification time, and increase the consumption of prothrombin even in dilution of 1:10,000. At the same time homogenates possess pronounced fibrinolytic activity.”
Source
(1978) (1978)Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Show BibTeX
@article{effects_of_nonionizing_electromagnetic_radiation_g4633,
author = {Unknown},
title = {Effects of Nonionizing Electromagnetic Radiation},
year = {1978},
}