7  Specific diseases (draft)

7.1 Cardiovascular disease

7.1.1 Blood pressure

Cell phone calls, and thus radiofrequency radiation, may be related to the development of high blood-pressure (hypertension) , according to a large study using data from the UK Biobank (Ye et al. 2023). Radiation exposure can be assumed to be strongly affected by cell phone usage. Confounding factors and other explanatory models can always exist. Mecanistic models for how a blood pressure increase can happen due to radiofrequency radiation, is a topic for future studies, – and such studies will increase the confidence in the findings from epidemiological studies on cell phone usage or similar exposure, and blood pressure.

7.2 Cancer

One of the earliest finding of cancer (malignant tumors) fom RF exposure was found in rats in 1984 (Microwave News 1984) The finding came after exposure to low level pulsed 2450 MHz radiation, in the first long-term study on microwave exposure in the United States, funded by the U.S. Air Force in a $5 million (1984 value) dollar study. Notably, it took eight years from the findings were first presented at a conference until they were published in a scientific journal (Microwave News 1993; Chou et al. 1992).

Chou, C. K., A. W. Guy, L. L. Kunz, R. B. Johnson, J. J. Crowley, and J. H. Krupp. 1992. “Long-Term, Low-Level Microwave Irradiation of Rats.” Bioelectromagnetics 13 (6): 469–96. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.2250130605.

Microwave News. 1984. “Microwaves Promote Cancer” 4 (6): 1–5.

———. 1993. “Updates - Guy Study” 8 (1): 13.

Ye, Ziliang, Yanjun Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Sisi Yang, Mengyi Liu, Qimeng Wu, Chun Zhou, Panpan He, Xiaoqin Gan, and Xianhui Qin. 2023. “Mobile Phone Calls, Genetic Susceptibility, and New-Onset Hypertension: Results from 212 046 UK Biobank Participants.” European Heart Journal - Digital Health 4 (3): 165–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztad024.