The link between cell phone use and cardiovascular disease risk was particularly strong among smokers and people with diabetes.
Using a cell phone for at least one call per week is linked to a higher risk for cardiovascular disease , especially among smokers and patients with diabetes, according to a new UK Biobank analysis.
Their analysis included 444,027 participants without a history of CVD from the UK Biobank. A total of 378,161 participants were regular cell phone users. Compared with nonregular cell phone users, regular users were younger, had higher proportions of current smokers and urban residents, and had lower proportions of history of hypertension and diabetes. They also had higher income, Townsend deprivation index, and body mass index and lower education levels.
To different extents, sleep patterns , psychologic distress , and neuroticism mediated the relationship between weekly cell phone usage time and the risk for incident CVD. There are several limitations to the study in addition to its observational nature, which cannot show cause and effect. The questionnaires on cell phone use were restricted to phone calls; other use patterns of cell phones were not considered. Although the researchers adjusted for many potential confounders, unmeasured confounding bias cannot be eliminated.
Nieca Goldberg, MD, a clinical associate professor of medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City and American Heart Association volunteer expert, had a similar message."You don't have to go back to using a land line," she said."Instead, patients should be more mindful of how much phone use is taking away from their physical activity, keeping them from sleeping, and causing them stress.
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