Physiological effects of RF exposure on hypersensitive people by a cell phone.

Kim DW, Lee JH, Ji HC, Kim SC, Nam KC, Cha EJ

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc.;1:2322-2325. 2008

Persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) complain of subjective symptoms such as headaches, insomnia, memory loss etc. resulting from radio frequency (RF) radiation by cellular phones.

There have been various EHS provocation studies on heart rate, blood pressure, and subjective symptoms using GSM phones. However, there are few provocation studies on case-control study investigating simultaneously physiological parameters from CDMA phones.

In this study, two volunteer groups of 18 self-declared EHS and 19 controls were exposed to both sham and real RF exposures by a CDMA cellular phone for half an hour each. We investigated the physiological parameters such as heart rates, respiration rates, and heart rate variability (HRV).

In conclusion, the RF exposure by a CDMA cellular phone did not have any effects on the physiological parameters for both groups.