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Prenatal cell phone use and developmental milestone delays among infants.
Divan HA, Kheifets L, Olsen J. · 2011
View Original AbstractPrenatal cell phone use from 1996-2002 showed no developmental delays, but today's exposure levels are dramatically higher.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tracked over 41,000 Danish mothers and their children to see if cell phone use during pregnancy affected early childhood development milestones. They found no connection between prenatal cell phone exposure and delays in cognitive, language, or motor development at 6 and 18 months of age. This large study suggests that typical cell phone use during pregnancy doesn't appear to harm early brain development in infants.
Study Details
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.
Show BibTeX
@article{ha_2011_prenatal_cell_phone_use_3004,
author = {Divan HA and Kheifets L and Olsen J.},
title = {Prenatal cell phone use and developmental milestone delays among infants.},
year = {2011},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21403981/},
}