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Effects of RF fields emitted from smart phones on cardio-respiratory parameters: a preliminary provocation study.

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Kwon MK, Nam KC, Lee da S, Jang KH, Kim DW. · 2011

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Thirty minutes of smartphone RF exposure showed no immediate heart or breathing changes in this small study of 20 people.

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Researchers exposed 20 people (10 who claimed electromagnetic hypersensitivity and 10 who didn't) to smartphone radiofrequency radiation at 1950 MHz for 30 minutes in a controlled, double-blind study. They monitored heart and breathing patterns during exposure but found no measurable changes in either group. This suggests that short-term smartphone RF exposure at typical levels doesn't immediately affect basic cardiovascular or respiratory functions.

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The aim of this study is to investigate Effects of RF fields emitted from smart phones on cardio-respiratory parameters: a preliminary provocation study.

This paper describes an experimental setup for evaluating the physiological effects of radiofrequenc...

In the preliminary results, WCDMA RF exposure of 30 min did not have any effects on physiological ch...

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Kwon MK, Nam KC, Lee da S, Jang KH, Kim DW. (2011). Effects of RF fields emitted from smart phones on cardio-respiratory parameters: a preliminary provocation study. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011:1961-1964, 2011.
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@article{mk_2011_effects_of_rf_fields_3163,
  author = {Kwon MK and Nam KC and Lee da S and Jang KH and Kim DW.},
  title = {Effects of RF fields emitted from smart phones on cardio-respiratory parameters: a preliminary provocation study.},
  year = {2011},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22254717/},
}
PubMed: 22254717

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Researchers exposed 20 people (10 who claimed electromagnetic hypersensitivity and 10 who didn't) to smartphone radiofrequency radiation at 1950 MHz for 30 minutes in a controlled, double-blind study. They monitored heart and breathing patterns during exposure but found no measurable changes in either group. This suggests that short-term smartphone RF exposure at typical levels doesn't immediately affect basic cardiovascular or respiratory functions.