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Article: Cellular Phones Found to Interfere With Heart Pacemakers
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 21, 1996
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Cellular phones can interfere with cardiac pacemakers,
interrupting their ability to regulate the heart, according to a
study by Mayo Clinic scientists.
David Hayes, director of pacemaker services at the Mayo
Clinic, teamed with researchers at the University of Oklahoma and
Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston to study the effects of
five types of cellular phones on 975 people with pacemakers.
Pacemakers are tiny electrical devices that are surgically
implanted to regulate the heart in people experiencing either an
erratic heartbeat or one consistently too fast or too slow. Several
small previous studies have suggested that cellular phones might
interfere with cardiac ...