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Effects of radiation emitted by WCDMA mobile phones on electromagnetic hypersensitive subjects.

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Kwon MK, Choi JY, Kim SK, Yoo TK, Kim DW. · 2012

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Even people claiming electromagnetic hypersensitivity couldn't detect or respond to cell phone radiation at levels higher than typical phone use.

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Researchers tested whether people claiming electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) could actually detect cell phone radiation or experience symptoms from it. They exposed 17 EHS subjects and 20 healthy controls to real and fake WCDMA phone signals for 32 minutes while monitoring heart rate, breathing, and symptoms. Neither group showed any physiological changes or could reliably tell when they were being exposed to real radiation.

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The aim of this studies Is to invesitgate Effects of radiation emitted by WCDMA mobile phones on electromagnetic hypersensitive subjects.

In this double-blind study, two volunteer groups of 17 EHS and 20 non-EHS subjects were simultaneous...

WCDMA RF-EMFs generated no physiological changes or subjective symptoms in either group. There was n...

Considering the analyzed physiological data, the subjective symptoms surveyed, and the percentages of those who believed they were being exposed, 32 min of RF radiation emitted by WCDMA mobile phones demonstrated no effects in either EHS or non-EHS subjects.

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Kwon MK, Choi JY, Kim SK, Yoo TK, Kim DW. (2012). Effects of radiation emitted by WCDMA mobile phones on electromagnetic hypersensitive subjects. Environ Health. 11(1):69, 2012.
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@article{mk_2012_effects_of_radiation_emitted_3164,
  author = {Kwon MK and Choi JY and Kim SK and Yoo TK and Kim DW.},
  title = {Effects of radiation emitted by WCDMA mobile phones on electromagnetic hypersensitive subjects.},
  year = {2012},
  doi = {10.1186/1476-069X-11-69},
  url = {https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-069X-11-69},
}

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Researchers tested whether people claiming electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) could actually detect cell phone radiation or experience symptoms from it. They exposed 17 EHS subjects and 20 healthy controls to real and fake WCDMA phone signals for 32 minutes while monitoring heart rate, breathing, and symptoms. Neither group showed any physiological changes or could reliably tell when they were being exposed to real radiation.