Open AccessA study on the effect of prolonged mobile phone use on pure tone audiometry thresholds of medical students of Sikkim
Author(s) -
Soumyajit Das,
Swastika Chakraborty,
B. Mahanta
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.201419
Subject(s) - medicine , audiology , mobile phone , pure tone audiometry , absolute threshold of hearing , audiometry , bone conduction , phone , hearing loss , telecommunications , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
Mobile phones have become indispensable for daily activities, and people are exposed to them from an early age. There is, however, concern about the harmful effect of the electromagnetic radiation emitted from the mobile phones.