The document discusses the potential health effects of prenatal exposure to cell phone radiation. It first notes that cell phone use has increased dependency on cell phones for communication. It then summarizes a study that found an association between prenatal cell phone use and behavioral problems in children such as ADHD. The document proposes a two-phase study to further examine the relationship between prenatal cell phone exposure and ADHD in offspring. It recommends that pregnant women limit cell phone use by using phones with lower radiation frequencies or for shorter periods.

1. Lester J. Rosario Rodríguez
RISE Program

2.  Technology today
 Continues to advance
 People become more dependent
 Cell phones
 become people’s most important gadget because
they facilitate communication
 Divan and collaborators in 2008 associated cell
phones use during pregnancy to behavioral
problems in children.
 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

3. The attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD):
 Symptoms include:
 difficulty staying focused and paying attention
 difficulty controlling behavior
 hyperactivity (over-activity).

4. Prenatal high exposure to cell phone use
provokes attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder in the offspring.

5. To determine if the prenatal high exposure to cell
phone use causes attention-
deficit/hyperactivity disorder

6. Raise awareness in pregnant women about the
use of cell phones.
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7. First Phase:
 A big group of recently pregnant women will
be asked to fill a questionnaire
 Time they spent a day talking through cell phones.
 Another questionnaire will be filled by these
mothers about the behavior of their children
 Children of 3 to 6 years old.
 Questions included: Are their children using cell
phones? How much time?
 It will be determined how many children are
diagnosed with ADHD.

8. Second Phase:
 Expose pregnant hamsters to electromagnetic
radiation equivalent to cell phones exposure.
 Frequencies:
 900 MHz
 1.9 GHz
 2.4-GHz
 5.8 GHz
 Groups and time intervals:
 Group 1= 3 hours a day
 Group 2= 6 hours a day
 Control group: no exposure

9.  Propose pregnant women to use cell phones
with low frequencies of electromagnetic
radiation or use them for short periods.
 Research about the effects of high exposure to
cell phone use in the behavior or health of
children, adolescents and adults.

10.  Divan, Hozefa A.; Kheifets, Leeka; Obel, Carsten; Olsen, Jørn. (2008).
Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Cell Phone Use and Behavioral
Problems in Children. Retrieved from:
http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/2008/07000/Prenatal_and_Post
natal_Exposure_to_Cell_Phone_Use.1.aspx
 Vrijheid M, Martinez D, Forns J, Guxens M, Julvez J, Ferrer,
Sunyer J. (2010). Prenatal exposure to cell phone use and
neurodevelopment at 14 months. Retrieved from:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20087192
 NIMH. (2008). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Retrieved on July 2, 2010, from:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/attention-deficit-
hyperactivity-disorder/complete-index.shtml

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