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Effect of Wi-Fi radiation on Salivary Cortisol levels
Author(s) -
S Mahila,
PR Devaki,
Pravin Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 0970-2067
DOI - 10.51248/.v39i1.221
Subject(s) - mobile phone , medicine , demography , psychology , audiology , physiology , engineering , telecommunications , sociology
and Aim: Sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation is the emerging health problem of the 21st century. The sensitivity to electromagnetic radiations has become the major issue to be highlighted as environmental intolerance to Wi-Fi. These Wi-Fi radiations are a form of stress and thereby tend to increase salivary cortisol levels. Hence this study was done to analyse the effect of Wi-Fi radiations on salivary cortisol levels. The aim of the present study is to study the effect of Wi-Fi radiation from mobile phone towers on salivary cortisol levels. Materials and Methods: This study incorporated analysis of salivary cortisol levels in 72 healthy volunteers who were divided into two groups, subjects residing within 100 mts of the location of mobile phone towers and subjects who were residing outside 100 mts of the location of mobile phone towers and both groups were age & sex matched. The data was statistically analysed using the ANOVA with the SPSS software15.0 version. Results: The study showed that the salivary cortisol level increased in those subjects staying within 100 meters of the location of mobile phone towers compared to the subjects residing outside 100 mts of the location     of mobile phone towers. Conclusion: From this study, it is concluded that Wi-Fi radiation causes invisible damaging effects by increasing the levels of salivary cortisol and vigorous measures to be taken to safeguard ourselves from these radiations.  

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