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Article

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

by
Vidmantas Vaičiulis
1,2,*,
Jonė Venclovienė
3,4,
Abdonas Tamošiūnas
5,6,
Deivydas Kiznys
3,
Dalia Lukšienė
1,5,
Daina Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė
5,7 and
Ričardas Radišauskas
1,5
1
Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania
2
Health Research Institute, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania
3
Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, LT-44248 Kaunas, Lithuania
4
Laboratory of Clinical Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50103 Kaunas, Lithuania
5
Laboratory of Population Studies, Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50103 Kaunas, Lithuania
6
Department of Preventive Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-47181 Kaunas, Lithuania
7
Department of Family Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-50009 Kaunas, Lithuania
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Atmosphere 2021, 12(3), 306; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12030306
Submission received: 17 December 2020 / Revised: 18 February 2021 / Accepted: 22 February 2021 / Published: 26 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Impacts of Space Weather on Human Health)
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Abstract

The effects of charged solar particles hitting the Earth’s magnetosphere are often harmful and can be dangerous to the human organism. The aim of this study was to analyze the associations of geomagnetic storms (GSs) and other space weather events (solar proton events (SPEs), solar flares (SFs), high-speed solar wind (HSSW), interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) and stream interaction regions (SIRs)) with morbidity from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and mortality from ischemic heart diseases (IHDs) during the period 2000–2015 in Kaunas (Lithuania). In 2000–2015, 12,330 AMI events (men/women n = 6942/5388) and 3742 deaths from IHD (men/women n = 2480/1262) were registered. The results showed that a higher risk of AMI and deaths from IHD were related to the period of 3 days before GS—a day after GS, and a stronger effect was observed during the spring–autumn period. The strongest effect of HSSW was observed on the day of the event. We found significant associations between the risk of AMI and death from IHD and the occurrence of SFs during GSs. We also found a statistically significant increase in rate ratios (RRs) for all AMIs and deaths from IHD between the second and fourth days of the period of ICMEs.
Keywords: solar wind; geomagnetic storm; ischemic heart disease; solar flares; solar proton event; acute myocardial infarction; ischemic heart disease solar wind; geomagnetic storm; ischemic heart disease; solar flares; solar proton event; acute myocardial infarction; ischemic heart disease

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Vaičiulis, V.; Venclovienė, J.; Tamošiūnas, A.; Kiznys, D.; Lukšienė, D.; Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė, D.; Radišauskas, R. Associations between Space Weather Events and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths from Ischemic Heart Disease. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 306. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12030306

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Vaičiulis V, Venclovienė J, Tamošiūnas A, Kiznys D, Lukšienė D, Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė D, Radišauskas R. Associations between Space Weather Events and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths from Ischemic Heart Disease. Atmosphere. 2021; 12(3):306. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12030306

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Vaičiulis, Vidmantas, Jonė Venclovienė, Abdonas Tamošiūnas, Deivydas Kiznys, Dalia Lukšienė, Daina Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė, and Ričardas Radišauskas. 2021. "Associations between Space Weather Events and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths from Ischemic Heart Disease" Atmosphere 12, no. 3: 306. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12030306

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Vaičiulis, V., Venclovienė, J., Tamošiūnas, A., Kiznys, D., Lukšienė, D., Krančiukaitė-Butylkinienė, D., & Radišauskas, R. (2021). Associations between Space Weather Events and the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Deaths from Ischemic Heart Disease. Atmosphere, 12(3), 306. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12030306

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