The cardiac effects of a mobile phone positioned closest to the heart

Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 380-384

  Tamer, Ali ^a   Gündüz, Hüseyin ^a   Özyildirim, Serhan ^b  

^a Korucuk Campus ^*  (Turkey)

^b ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Mobile phone; P wave dispersion; QT dispersion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; P WAVE; QT INTERVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CELLULAR PHONE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 70849101472     PISSN: 13028723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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