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For out there who's freaked out that the electromagnetic waves from a hybrid or plug-in vehicle will throw off pacemakers and cause heart attacks, go ahead and breathe easy: that ain't gonna happen.
No less of an authority than the Mayo Clinic took it upon itself to test whether pacemakers or defibrillators are affected by electric-drive vehicles, and presented results of the study "Hybrid Cars and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators: Is It Safe?" at a San Francisco conference earlier this month. It is true that implanted devices can misconstrue signals from outside sources as coming from a person's heart, but hybrids don't cause this reaction. In short, Mayo used 30 participants to test implanted devices from three different manufacturers, and measured electric and magnetic fields in various positions inside and outside a 2012
Toyota Prius. The upshot: hybrids do not pose a threat because the recorded electromagnetic interference levels were low, though Mayo Clinic says more tests will be conducted.
Check out the Mayo Clinic's press release
below.
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