Cellular Phone Use Does Not Acutely Affect Blood Pressure or Heart Rate of Humans

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 73-83

  Tahvanainen, Kari ^a   Niño, Juanita ^a   Halonen, Pirjo ^b   Kuusela, Tom ^c   Laitinen, Tomi ^d   Länsimies, Esko ^d   Hartikainen, Juha ^d   Hietanen, Maila ^a   Lindholm, Harri ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; GSM; Heart rate; Human; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HEART;

900 MHZ; ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE; CELLULAR PHONE; HEAD-UP TILTS; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HEART-RATE; HUMAN; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; RADIOFREQUENCIES; SPONTANEOUS BREATHING;

BLOOD PRESSURE;

PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEAD TILTING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 1442276367     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bem.10165     Document Type: Article

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