Associations between Space Weather Events and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths from Ischemic Heart Disease

Vaičiulis, Vidmantas; Venclovienė, Jonė; Tamošiūnas, Abdonas; Kiznys, Deivydas; Lukšienė, Dalia; Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė, Daina; Radišauskas, Ričardas

doi:10.3390/atmos12030306

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“…A number of studies have shown that reliable correlations between both LGMF [17] and GMF activity [18] and human organism functionalities are observed. While studies examining magnetic field disturbance show negative effects on health outcomes, a growing body of research is indicating that increases in the resonant frequencies in the Earth's magnetic fields is positively associated with the decrease of pathological processes.…”

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Investigation of parallels between human basal metabolic features and local Earth magnetic field

Taletavičienė¹,

McCraty²,

Pestininkas³

et al. 2021

J., complex., health sci.

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The human body, even at rest, needs energy to perform necessary physiological functions. Strict conditions are required for measuring basal metabolic rate (BMR). Many factors that have a direct impact on BMR including the condition of autonomic nervous. All living systems are affected by external and internal environments. One factor in the external environment is the Earth's magnetic field, which fluctuates over a wide frequency range. A series of studies indicate that low frequency magnetic fields can affect cellular mitochondrial activity and impacts every cell's metabolism. Information on gas metabolism during respiration was obtained by indirect calorimetry using a system where the gas flow was continuously analyzed. Time varying local Earth magnetic field data were recorded at a magnetometer site located in Lithuania using 2 induction coil magnetometers. For all magnetic field data, power spectral density PSD was calculated for every hour (fast Fourier transformation) in the band between 0.32 to 36 Hz. Investigations of metabolic rate were performed in Lithuanian during 2016-2020 years. We assessed 395 persons: 116 men and 279 women. Conclusions: 1) Oxygen consumption has significant negative correlation with local geomagnetic field activity; 2) Metabolic rate decreases with increases in local geomagnetic time varying field power; 3) Measured metabolic rate decreases with increase of local geomagnetic field power.

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Investigation of parallels between human basal metabolic features and local Earth magnetic field

Taletavičienė¹,

McCraty²,

Pestininkas³

et al. 2021

J., complex., health sci.

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“…Vaičiulis et al . 2021). Namely, increases in the intensity of GCR‐particle flux have been suggested to increase overall deaths (e.g.…”

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Examining the role of solar activity, climate, and the socio‐historical context in high all‐cause mortality (northern Portugal, 1700–1880)

Moreno¹,

Moreno

Fatela

et al. 2021

Boreas

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The far‐reaching impact of the Sun on Earth's climate and on people's health and well‐being is a poorly understood and non‐consensual scientific issue, with empirical literature stressing the need to expand the knowledge of such relationships. Here, the interplay between solar activity (SA) and climate, and its likely cascading effects on all‐cause mortality, were examined at several time scales. To this end, the parish records of Braga (1700–1880) and Torre de Moncorvo (1700–1850), in two different geographical locations of northern Portugal (Iberia, SW Europe), were used. Crude mortality rate (CMR) and winter–summer ratio (W/S) values were computed to characterize mortality patterns/trends and couple them with potential relevant drivers: total solar irradiance (TSI) as a proxy of SA, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and key historical events. What emerged, albeit incomplete, was a complex picture of death deeply embedded in people’s physical and socioeconomic environments, at a time when ubiquitous poverty (and co‐morbid malnutrition) was the most inveterate cause of ill health. After identifying the positive mortality episodes in both municipalities, their incidence was found to be higher in periods of weakened SA (normal/grand minima). Standard inference statistics were used to estimate the significance of the observations. The highest CMR peaks matched not only with wars but also with known wide‐ranging mortality crises, which seem to have been triggered by major agricultural production shortfalls, followed by substantial increases in food prices, driven, in turn, by climate deterioration, including extreme weather occurrences. The outcome was social unrest, famines, and outbreaks of infectious diseases, heightening the death toll. The influence of prominent solar/climate variations was investigated using wavelet transform coherence analysis (WTC). The results showed (multi)decadal oscillations in both (TSI and NAO) somehow regulating mortality. But the WTC analysis also estimated SA signals in low‐frequency mortality dynamics disguised by time‐varying determinants, where distinct players of space weather might have been implicated.

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“…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

Atmosphere

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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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Associations between Space Weather Events and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths from Ischemic Heart Disease

Cited by 10 publications

References 50 publications

Investigation of parallels between human basal metabolic features and local Earth magnetic field

Investigation of parallels between human basal metabolic features and local Earth magnetic field

Examining the role of solar activity, climate, and the socio‐historical context in high all‐cause mortality (northern Portugal, 1700–1880)

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

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