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Emerging aspects of mobile phone use
The mobile phone is a modern-day invention, which has managed to reach many parts of the world enabling telecommunications across areas where it was not possible before. Although these devices have proved to be life saving in certain circumstances (e.g., after accidents) and helped improve the quali...
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CoAction Publishing
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22460286 http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.09.005 |
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description | The mobile phone is a modern-day invention, which has managed to reach many parts of the world enabling telecommunications across areas where it was not possible before. Although these devices have proved to be life saving in certain circumstances (e.g., after accidents) and helped improve the quality of life in some sectors, concerns continue to be raised about potential adverse health impacts associated with their use. These range from cancer and cognitive deficiencies to subjective effects, such as a feeling of warmth around the ear used, headache and fatigue. We provide an overview of the concerns raised and summarise what is known about them. We conducted a literature search in Pubmed/Medline to identify published papers on health effects of mobile phones, and an intensive search on the Internet to collect data on the global use of mobile phones. In the year 2000, there were an estimated 500 million mobile phone users worldwide. Today, there are about 3.3 billion users. The use of mobile phones among young children and adolescents is also increasing. Health-risk research has mainly focused on adults and on a single outcome, brain tumours. No significant relationship has been established between mobile phone use and the incidence or growth of brain tumours. Other research indicates emerging concerns, including hearing problems and self-reported health symptoms, such as tiredness, stress, headache, anxiety, concentration difficulties and sleep disturbances, but results remain inconclusive. Currently, there is little epidemiological evidence indicating that the use of mobile phones causes adverse health effects. |
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spelling | pubmed-31676442011-09-07 Emerging aspects of mobile phone use Samkange-Zeeb, F Blettner, M Emerg Health Threats J Review Articles The mobile phone is a modern-day invention, which has managed to reach many parts of the world enabling telecommunications across areas where it was not possible before. Although these devices have proved to be life saving in certain circumstances (e.g., after accidents) and helped improve the quality of life in some sectors, concerns continue to be raised about potential adverse health impacts associated with their use. These range from cancer and cognitive deficiencies to subjective effects, such as a feeling of warmth around the ear used, headache and fatigue. We provide an overview of the concerns raised and summarise what is known about them. We conducted a literature search in Pubmed/Medline to identify published papers on health effects of mobile phones, and an intensive search on the Internet to collect data on the global use of mobile phones. In the year 2000, there were an estimated 500 million mobile phone users worldwide. Today, there are about 3.3 billion users. The use of mobile phones among young children and adolescents is also increasing. Health-risk research has mainly focused on adults and on a single outcome, brain tumours. No significant relationship has been established between mobile phone use and the incidence or growth of brain tumours. Other research indicates emerging concerns, including hearing problems and self-reported health symptoms, such as tiredness, stress, headache, anxiety, concentration difficulties and sleep disturbances, but results remain inconclusive. Currently, there is little epidemiological evidence indicating that the use of mobile phones causes adverse health effects. CoAction Publishing 2009-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3167644/ /pubmed/22460286 http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.09.005 Text en © 2009 F Samkange-Zeeb and M Blettner; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Articles Samkange-Zeeb, F Blettner, M Emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
title | Emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
title_full | Emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
title_fullStr | Emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
title_full_unstemmed | Emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
title_short | Emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
title_sort | emerging aspects of mobile phone use |
topic | Review Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22460286 http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.09.005 |
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