A study of the possible relation of the cardiac arrhythmias occurrence to the polarity reversal of the solar magnetic field

Mavromichalaki, H.; Preka‐Papadema, P.; Theodoropoulou, Athanasia; Paouris, Evangelos; Αποστολου, Θωμασ

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2016.08.024

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“…It is, thus, possible to identify specific changes in the connection of time series of daily number of deaths of men and women over 40 years of circulatory system diseases and nervous system diseases in the time series of solar radio flux F10.7, geomagnetic index Kp, and solar proton flux PF30 between observed periods before and after monitored solar storms. Such connection is consistent with the results published in References [19,21], where the influence of the geomagnetic field was also identified and a connection with the geomagnetic parameters (Kp).…”

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“…Exceptional solar events affect the human circulatory system indirectly Atmosphere 2021, 12, 203 2 of 14 through the concentration of electric charges and also changes in the magnetic field in the environment in which the monitored population lives [20]. Moreover, the impact of geomagnetic disturbances may depend on solar magnetic field polarity [21], the course and phase of the solar cycle, and on the strength of the exceptional solar events during the given period of observation [22][23][24][25][26][27]. The recent studies investigate also the simultaneous effects of space weather and meteorological situations on cardiovascular diseases [28,29].…”

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Changes of Circulatory and Nervous Diseases Mortality Patterns during Periods of Exceptional Solar Events

Podolská

2021

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A statistical analysis of the relation between exceptional solar events and daily numbers of deaths in the Czech Republic is presented. In particular, we concentrate on diseases of the nervous system (group VI from ICD-10—International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision) and diseases of the circulatory system (group IX from ICD-10). We demonstrate that the neurological diseases exhibit greater instability during the period of rising and falling solar activity. We study the daily numbers of deaths, separately for both sexes and two age groups (under 39 and 40+), during the Solar Cycles No. 23 and No. 24. We focus on exceptionally strong solar events in this period, such as the “Bastille Day event” on 14 July 2000, “Halloween solar storm” on 28 October 2003, and events on 7 January 1997, 2 April 2000, and on 7 September 2005. Special attention is paid to “St. Patrick’s Day storm” on 17 March 2015, the strongest geomagnetic storm of the Solar Cycle No. 24 that occurred following a coronal mass ejection (CME). We investigate the changes in the daily numbers of deaths during 1 month before and 1 month after these exceptional solar events. We take specific storm dynamics of their geophysical parameters into consideration. It has been verified that, for diseases of the nervous system, women are generally more sensitive than men. On the contrary, this differences between men and women have not been found for diseases of the circulatory system. Our findings suggest that the impact of the hazardous space weather conditions on human health depends on the specific dynamic and strength of the solar storm.

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Changes of Circulatory and Nervous Diseases Mortality Patterns during Periods of Exceptional Solar Events

Podolská

2021

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“…However, none of these connections are present in the same form in all three solar storms. Such connection is consistent with the results published in [20,22], where the influence of the geomagnetic field was also identified and a connection with the geomagnetic parameters (Kp).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Strong solar storms affect the human circulatory system indirectly through the concentration of electric charges and also changes in the magnetic field in the terrestrial environment in which the monitored population lives [21]. Moreover, the impact of geomagnetic disturbances may depend on solar magnetic field polarity [22], the course and phase of the solar cycle, and on the strength of the exceptional solar events during the given period of observation [23][24][25][26][27][28]. The recent studies investigate also the simultaneous effects of space weather and meteorological situations on cardiovascular diseases [29][30][31][32], which can be important in the context of climate change.…”

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Circulatory and Nervous Diseases Mortality Patterns—Comparison of Geomagnetic Storms and Quiet Periods

Podolská

2021

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The aim of this paper is to statistically examine whether there are different patterns in daily numbers of deaths during the quiet periods of solar activity, in contrast to the periods of the strong solar storms. We considered three periods of solar storms (storm of 14 July 2000 Bastille Day Event, storm of 28 October 2003 Halloween Solar Storms, and storm of 17 March 2015 St. Patrick’s Day event) and three periods of continuous very low solar activity (13 September–24 October 1996, 21 July–20 August 2008, and 31 July–31 August 2009) during the Solar Cycles No. 23 and No. 24. In particular, we focus on diseases of the nervous system (group VI from ICD-10) and diseases of the circulatory system (group IX from ICD-10) separately for both sexes and two age groups (under 39 and 40+). We demonstrate that in the resulting graphical models there was a connection between the daily number of deaths and all indices of solar and geomagnetic activity in periods of low solar activity in contrast to periods of strong solar storms in some monitored groups according to age, sex, and group of diagnosis.

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“…Reliable associations between TVMF changes and variability of heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and neural regulation in heart autonomic nervous system have been published in several studies [19]. Even more, strong correlations between GM activity and onsets of cardiac emergencies including acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and crisis of arterial hypertension (AH) have been published [12,17,[20][21][22].…”

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Correlations between acute atrial fibrillation and local earth magnetic field strength

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Jaruševičius²,

Jurjonaitė³

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Objectives: Atrial fibrillation is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia affecting over 3 percent and appears to be increasing in general population. In addition to widely discussed such risk factor as obesity, arterial hypertension, electrolytes disbalances and dysfunction of thyroid, there is more and more evidence of human heath interactions with environment parameters such as humidity, temperature, the lunar and the solar activity. Atrial fibrillation, a disorder of heart conductive system, in several studies have been indicated as affected by local Earth magnetic field changes. The study was aimed to analyse possible correlations between the power in the local Earth time-varying magnetic field and admission due to atrial fibrillation. Methods: Two-hundred-fifty-one patients diagnosed with acute atrial fibrillation and treated in

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A study of the possible relation of the cardiac arrhythmias occurrence to the polarity reversal of the solar magnetic field

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Changes of Circulatory and Nervous Diseases Mortality Patterns during Periods of Exceptional Solar Events

Changes of Circulatory and Nervous Diseases Mortality Patterns during Periods of Exceptional Solar Events

Circulatory and Nervous Diseases Mortality Patterns—Comparison of Geomagnetic Storms and Quiet Periods

Correlations between acute atrial fibrillation and local earth magnetic field strength

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