iPods can even make pacemakers malfunction

The study was held at the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute at Michigan State University. The results were presented at the Heart Rhythm Society annual meeting in Denver.

Jay Thaker, lead author of the study and a student at Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan, concluded that iPod interference can lead physicians to misdiagnose actual heart function. Thaker, whose father is an electrophysiologist and whose mother is a rheumatologist, said he asked his dad about a potential interaction between pacemakers and iPods.

8220;We looked online but didn8217;t see anything. Then, one of his patients asked him if there would be a problem, so my father put me in touch with Dr Krit Jongnarangsin,8221; Thaker said. Jongnarangsin, a long-time friend of Thaker8217;s father, is the senior author of the study and an assistant professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Michigan.