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Maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and behaviour problems in 5-year-old children
Guxens M, van Eijsden M, Vermeulen R, Loomans E, Vrijkotte TG, Komhout H, van Strien RT, Huss A. · 2013
View Original AbstractMaternal cell phone use during pregnancy showed no significant link to behavioral problems in 5-year-old children.
Plain English Summary
Dutch researchers studied whether pregnant mothers using cell phones or cordless phones would have children with more behavioral problems at age 5. They followed 2,618 children and found no significant increase in behavioral issues among children whose mothers used phones during pregnancy, even with heavy phone use of 5 or more calls per day. The study suggests that prenatal phone exposure doesn't appear to cause behavioral problems in young children.
Study Details
we assessed the association between maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and teacher-reported and maternal-reported child behaviour problems at age 5.
The study was embedded in the Amsterdam Born Children and their Development study, a population-base...
A total of 2618 children were included. As compared to non-users, those exposed to prenatal cell pho...
Our results do not suggest that maternal cell phone or cordless phone use during pregnancy increases the odds of behaviour problems in their children.
Show BibTeX
@article{m_2013_maternal_cell_phone_and_2758,
author = {Guxens M and van Eijsden M and Vermeulen R and Loomans E and Vrijkotte TG and Komhout H and van Strien RT and Huss A.},
title = {Maternal cell phone and cordless phone use during pregnancy and behaviour problems in 5-year-old children},
year = {2013},
url = {https://jech.bmj.com/content/67/5/432.short},
}