ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2021
Solar Activity Is Associated With Diastolic and Systolic Blood Pressure in Elderly Adults.
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- Association Between Geomagnetic Activity and Unsuccessful Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.GeoHealth · 2026Article
- Delayed Correlations Between Geomagnetic Activity and Human EEG Alpha and Theta Oscillations: Evidence from Archival and Experimental Data.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- New Aspects of Understanding Individual Magnetosensitivity to Geomagnetic Storms.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2026Article
- Causal link between humid heatwaves and ischemic heart disease: assessing hospitalizations and economic burden across 955 Chinese counties.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Potential influence of geomagnetic activity on blood pressure statistical fluctuations at mid-magnetic latitudes.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Detrimental impact of solar and geomagnetic activity on plasma B-complex vitamins in the VA normative aging study cohort.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Correlations between geomagnetic field and global occurrence of cardiovascular diseases: evidence from 204 territories in different latitude.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- Associations of solar activity and related exposures with fetal growth.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Intense solar activity reduces urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin in patients with COPD.Respiratory research · 2023Article
- Solar and geomagnetic activity reduces pulmonary function and enhances particulate pollution effects.The Science of the total environment · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background Since solar activity and related geomagnetic disturbances modulate autonomic nervous system activity, we hypothesized that these events would be associated with blood pressure (BP). Methods and Results We studied 675 elderly men from the Normative Aging Study (Boston, MA) with 1949 BP measurements between 2000 and 2017. Mixed-effects regression models were used to investigate the association of average 1-day (ie, day of BP measurement) to 28-day interplanetary magnetic field intensity, sunspot number, and a dichotomized measure of global geomagnetic activity (K
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