ArticleThe Science of the total environment2022
Solar and geomagnetic activity reduces pulmonary function and enhances particulate pollution effects.
Article in The Science of the total environment, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- The impact of geomagnetic disturbances on mortality from respiratory tract infections in the USA, 2000-2019.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Space-Earth connection: How space weather fluctuations impact epigenetic aging in an elderly men cohort from Massachusetts, USA.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Solar and geomagnetic activity impacts children with asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2024Article
- Global warming and implications for epithelial barrier disruption and respiratory and dermatologic allergic diseases.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2023Review
- 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
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Abstract
backgroundIncreased solar and geomagnetic activity (SGA) may alter sympathetic nervous system activity, reduce antioxidant activity, and modulate physiochemical processes that contribute to atmospheric aerosols, all which may reduce pulmonary function.
objectivesInvestigate associations between forced expiratory volume at 1 s (FEV
methodsWe conducted a repeated measures analysis in 726 Normative Aging Study participants (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) between 2000 and 2017, using interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), planetary K index (Kp), and sunspot number (SSN) as SGA measures. Linear mixed effects models were used to assess exposure moving averages up to 28 days for both SGA and pollution.
resultsIncreases in IMF, Kp Index and SSN from the day of the pulmonary function test averaged through day 28 of were associated with a significant decrement in FEV DISCUSSION: Increased periods of solar and geomagnetic activity may directly contribute to impaired pulmonary function and also enhance effects of PM
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