Correlation between Changes in Local Earth’s Magnetic Field and Cases of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Abstract

The impact of changes in the geomagnetic field on the human body remains the subject of studies across the world, yet there is no consensus. Current studies are observing effects that require further work by researchers in order to find out the mechanisms that would allow a proper assessment of the correlations between the Earth‘s magnetic field variations and changes in human organisms. The main purpose of this study was to investigate possible correlations between the strength of time-varying aspects of the local Earth’s magnetic field and incidence of myocardial infarctions. Study participants included 435 males and 268 females who had diagnosis of myocardial infarction during the period of 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 and attended the Department of Cardiology at the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS), Kauno klinikos. Time varying magnetic field data was collected at the magnetometer site located in Lithuania. After mathematical analysis, the results support the hypothesis that the Earth’s magnetic field has a relationship between the number of acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation (STEMI) cases per week and the average weekly geomagnetic field strength in different frequency ranges. Correlations varied in different age groups as well as in males and females, which may indicate diverse organism sensitivity to the Earth’s magnetic field.

The local earth magnetic field changes impact on weekly hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris

“…In contrary to previous studies we analysed the local Earth magnetic field changes (not the Global one) impact on manifestation of unstable angina pectoris. The correlations between weekly prevalence of ACS did not surprise us, as even stronger correlations were found in previous study on acute myocardial infarction relationship with changes of the TVMF [4]. In addition, this study demonstrated strong correlations between changes in the TVMF and manifestation of unstable angina pectoris caused by LMA lesion.…”

“…To understand the process more completely, it is necessary to focus on possible changes of cellular and molecular regulation in accordance to local Earth time varying magnetic field (TVMF) strength changes. It is already known that isolated animal cells have specific sensitivity to the strength and frequency of fluctuation of the TVMF [4][5][6]. The TVMF regulatory effect proposed to be associated with the ion cyclotron resonance mechanism [5] whose effect on extracted myocardial cells has been recently demonstrated under laboratory conditions [7].…”

“…Most published studies were focused on the impact of the Global Earth magnetic field changes on human regulatory systems and only a few ones analysed the TVMF effect on human regulatory systems [3]. An acute myocardial infarction association with the TVMF changes were analysed recently [4], but none of studies have investigated the TVMF correlation with cases of unstable angina pectoris yet.…”

Correlations between acute atrial fibrillation and local earth magnetic field strength

“…There is strong evidence of extracted animal cells' sensitivity to changes in TVMF frequency and strength [11][12][13][14]. Even more, TVMF regulatory effect, which is expected to be related to ion cyclotron resonance mechanism [11,13] have been proven on extracted myocardial cells under laboratory conditions [11,15].…”

“…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].…”