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Article: PACEMAKER RISKS FOUND WITH STORE DETECTORS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 12, 1998
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People with pacemakers should walk quickly through shoplifting detectors at store entrances to avoid possible interference that could cause dizziness or fainting, an American cardiologist recommended yesterday.
Dr. Michael McIvor, medical director of the Research Center at the Heart Institute of St. Petersburg, Fla., based his recommendation on a study that found that signals from some detectors caused pacemakers to emit extra heartbeats or stop entirely.
``The risk is small,'' he told a conference on store security systems sponsored by the Center for Retail Research. ``If you walk through the device and if you don't stop, you're probably not going to ...
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