Note: This study found no significant biological effects under its experimental conditions. We include all studies for scientific completeness.
Hypersensitivity to RF fields emitted from CDMA cellular phones: a provocation study.
Nam KC, Lee JH, Noh HW, Cha EJ, Kim NH, Kim DW. · 2009
View Original AbstractPeople claiming electromagnetic sensitivity couldn't detect cell phone radiation any better than controls, and neither group showed physical effects from 30-minute exposure.
Plain English Summary
Researchers tested 18 people who claimed to be sensitive to electromagnetic fields (called EHS or electromagnetic hypersensitivity) against 19 people without such sensitivity, exposing both groups to real and fake cell phone radiation for 30 minutes. Neither group showed any measurable physical changes or symptoms from the actual radiation exposure, and the supposedly sensitive people couldn't tell the difference between real and fake exposure any better than the control group.
Study Details
In this study, two volunteer groups of 18 self-reported EHS and 19 non-EHS persons were tested for both sham and real RF exposure from CDMA cellular phones with a 300 mW maximum exposure that lasted half an hour.
We investigated not only the physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiration rate, and hear...
In conclusion, RF exposure did not have any effects on physiological parameters or subjective symptoms in either group. As for EMF perception, there was no evidence that the EHS group better perceived EMF than the non-EHS group.
Show BibTeX
@article{kc_2009_hypersensitivity_to_rf_fields_3267,
author = {Nam KC and Lee JH and Noh HW and Cha EJ and Kim NH and Kim DW.},
title = {Hypersensitivity to RF fields emitted from CDMA cellular phones: a provocation study.},
year = {2009},
doi = {10.1002/bem.20518},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bem.20518},
}