Solar Activity Is Associated With Diastolic and Systolic Blood Pressure in Elderly Adults

Solar Activity Is Associated With Diastolic and Systolic Blood Pressure in Elderly Adults

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 mea...

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Main Authors: Veronica A. Wang, Carolina L. Zilli Vieira, Eric Garshick, Joel D. Schwartz, Michael S. Garshick, Pantel Vokonas, Petros Koutrakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-11-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
aged
air pollutants
autonomic nervous system
blood pressure
solar activity
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.021006

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