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Environmental Impact Assessment on The Effect of Magnetic Field Strength and Induced Potential on Pacemaker of The Heart, Creek Town, Nigeria 1*Joseph Gordian Atat, 2Nyakno Jimmy George, and 1Sunday Samuel Ekpo 1Department of Physics, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Akwa Ibom State University, Mkpat Enin, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. *Correspondence Contact Details: E-mail ✉: josephatat@uniuyo.edu.ng; Phone No. ☎:+2347069500697. Accepted June 20, 2021 A research to assess the effect of magnetic field strength and induced potential on patients with pacemaker in Creek Town was conducted. Proton precession magnetometer was used to measure the field strength along vertical and rectangular paths. Readings were taken at the base station and marked locations without much variation, as such there was no need for diurnal correction or presence of anomaly. The strength of the fields due to home appliances were considered as investigated by other researchers to enable us obtain the total possible magnetic field strength (about 0.04 mT). The average magnetic field strength obtained is (3.99093 ± 0.00512) x 10-5T. This result is much lower than the standards which could cause malfunctioning of the device and therefore, suggest a safe environment for all and enhances the computation of potential values. The average potential obtained for three different age groups for men and women are (8.671 ± 0.549) x 10-7V and (7.977 ± 0.505) x 10-7V (greater than 60 years), (8.250 ± 0.523) x 10-7V and (7.606 ± 0.482) x 10-7V (40 – 60 years), (7.630 ± 0.483) x 10-7V and (7.606 ± 0.482) x 10-7V (20 – 40 years) respectively. The probability value is very much lower than 0.01 (about zero) which is intended with the coefficient of determination and correlation coefficient of one. Key words: Magnetic field, Potential, Pacemaker, Diameter, Velocity. Full Text PDF (550 KB) |