TY - JOUR
T1 - The culprit artery in acute myocardial infarction in different environmental physical activity levels
AU - Stoupel, Elyiahu
AU - Assali, Abid
AU - Teplitzky, Igal
AU - Israelevich, Peter
AU - Abramson, Evgeny
AU - Sulkes, Jaqueline
AU - Kornowski, Ran
PY - 2008/5/23
Y1 - 2008/5/23
N2 - Background: The timing of acute coronary events may be related to endogenous and exogenous - environmental - factors. Aim: To check if daily levels of geomagnetic activity (GMA) and/or cosmic ray activity (CRA) measured by neutron activity (imp/min) on the Earth's surface are related by timing with specific culprit artery of AMI. Patients and methods: Data of PCI for AMI (n = 904, 696 men) from 01/2000 to 02/2006 (2251 days) were used for analysis. Daily GMA (I-IV levels) and neutron activity in imp/min were compared with localization of the culprit artery in AMI (LAD, RCA, CRX and Diagonal). The principal consideration was concentrated in the most frequent lesions of LAD (n = 422) and RCA (n = 332). The cosmophysical data were derived from USA, Russia and Finland. Results: Similar to the whole 2251 days, the PCI were inversely related to GMA (p = 0.03) and show a strong tendency to increase at higher CRA (p = 0.07). Comparing data on two high (III, IV) and low (I, II) levels of GMA shows that, at high GMA, RCA and LAD lesions were equal; at the more often low daily levels of GMA, accompanied by higher CRA (neutron) activity (p < 0.0001), LAD lesions were higher by 30% (χ2 = - 4.064, p = 0.04). Conclusion: At higher daily levels of GMA, RCA/LAD culprit lesions in AMI are equal; at low GMA and higher CRA (neutron) activity, LAD lesions are predominant.
AB - Background: The timing of acute coronary events may be related to endogenous and exogenous - environmental - factors. Aim: To check if daily levels of geomagnetic activity (GMA) and/or cosmic ray activity (CRA) measured by neutron activity (imp/min) on the Earth's surface are related by timing with specific culprit artery of AMI. Patients and methods: Data of PCI for AMI (n = 904, 696 men) from 01/2000 to 02/2006 (2251 days) were used for analysis. Daily GMA (I-IV levels) and neutron activity in imp/min were compared with localization of the culprit artery in AMI (LAD, RCA, CRX and Diagonal). The principal consideration was concentrated in the most frequent lesions of LAD (n = 422) and RCA (n = 332). The cosmophysical data were derived from USA, Russia and Finland. Results: Similar to the whole 2251 days, the PCI were inversely related to GMA (p = 0.03) and show a strong tendency to increase at higher CRA (p = 0.07). Comparing data on two high (III, IV) and low (I, II) levels of GMA shows that, at high GMA, RCA and LAD lesions were equal; at the more often low daily levels of GMA, accompanied by higher CRA (neutron) activity (p < 0.0001), LAD lesions were higher by 30% (χ2 = - 4.064, p = 0.04). Conclusion: At higher daily levels of GMA, RCA/LAD culprit lesions in AMI are equal; at low GMA and higher CRA (neutron) activity, LAD lesions are predominant.
KW - Cosmic ray (neutron) activity
KW - Culprit artery
KW - Geomagnetic activity
KW - Myocardial infarction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.050
DO - 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.050
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C2 - 17689744
AN - SCOPUS:42949097967
SN - 0167-5273
VL - 126
SP - 288
EP - 290
JO - International Journal of Cardiology
JF - International Journal of Cardiology
IS - 2
ER -
