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Prenatal cell phone use and developmental milestone delays among infants

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Divan HA, Kheifets L, Olsen J · 2011

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Large Danish study found no developmental delays in babies whose mothers used basic cell phones during pregnancy in the 1990s-2000s.

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Danish researchers followed over 41,000 children from birth to 18 months to see if mothers' cell phone use during pregnancy affected their babies' developmental milestones. They found no connection between prenatal cell phone exposure and delays in cognitive, language, or motor development at either 6 or 18 months of age. This large-scale study suggests that cell phone use during pregnancy doesn't appear to harm early childhood development.

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The aim of this study was to examine if prenatal use of cell phones by pregnant mothers is associated with developmental milestones delays among offspring up to 18 months of age.

Our work is based upon the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC), which recruited pregnant mothers fro...

A logistic regression model estimated the odds ratios (OR) for developmental milestone delays, adjus...

No evidence of an association between prenatal cell phone use and motor or cognitive/language developmental delays among infants at 6 and 18 months of age was observed. Even when considering dose-response associations for cell phone, associations were null

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Divan HA, Kheifets L, Olsen J (2011). Prenatal cell phone use and developmental milestone delays among infants Scand J Work Environ Health. 37(4):341-348, 2011.
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@article{ha_2011_prenatal_cell_phone_use_2748,
  author = {Divan HA and Kheifets L and Olsen J},
  title = {Prenatal cell phone use and developmental milestone delays among infants},
  year = {2011},
  
  url = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/23064863?seq=1},
}

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Danish researchers followed over 41,000 children from birth to 18 months to see if mothers' cell phone use during pregnancy affected their babies' developmental milestones. They found no connection between prenatal cell phone exposure and delays in cognitive, language, or motor development at either 6 or 18 months of age. This large-scale study suggests that cell phone use during pregnancy doesn't appear to harm early childhood development.