Carolina L Zilli Vieira1, Mark S Link2, Eric Garshick3,4,5, Adjani A Peralta1, Heike Luttmann-Gibson1, Francine Laden1,5,6, Man Liu1, Diane R Gold1,5, Petros Koutrakis1. 1. Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. 2. Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines BLVD, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA. 3. Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, 150S Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02130, USA. 4. Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. 5. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. 6. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract
AIMS: Cardiac arrhythmias have been associated with intense solar and geomagnetic activity (SGA) and exposures to air pollution. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined whether oscillations of SGA can modify the effect of hourly exposures to air pollutants on atrial fibrillation ≥30 s (AF) risk in patients with dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. The effects of SGA on ambient particulate matter <2.5 µm (PM2.5), black carbon (BC), ultrafine particles (PN), and associations with AF were assessed. Measures of SGA included solar wind proton density (SW), total interplanetary magnetic field strength (IMF), and Kp index, a measure of global geomagnetic activity. Overall time lags between 0 and 24 h, periods of increased SGA (>50th percentile in IMF, SW, and Kp index) enhanced the effects of all three air pollutants on AF, while during periods of reduced SGA the associations were considerably weaker or absent. During periods of intense SW 6 h prior to an AF event, the odds ratio (OR) for PM2.5 exposure per interquartile range (IQR) of 5.6 µg/m3 was 1.7 [95% confident interval (CI) 1.3-2.3, P = 0.0001]. For periods of reduced SW, the OR for PM2.5 exposure per IQR was 1.2 (95% CI 0.9-1.5; P = 0.27). There were similar effects for PN and BC exposures. In patients with multiple AF events per hour, the associations with air pollutants during intense SGA were even greater. CONCLUSION: The effects of air pollutants up to 24 h before AF events were enhanced during periods of increased SGA. Our results suggest that these effects may account for variation in AF risk. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
AIMS: Cardiac arrhythmias have been associated with intense solar and geomagnetic activity (SGA) and exposures to air pollution. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined whether oscillations of SGA can modify the effect of hourly exposures to air pollutants on atrial fibrillation ≥30 s (AF) risk in patients with dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. The effects of SGA on ambient particulate matter <2.5 µm (PM2.5), black carbon (BC), ultrafine particles (PN), and associations with AF were assessed. Measures of SGA included solar wind proton density (SW), total interplanetary magnetic field strength (IMF), and Kp index, a measure of global geomagnetic activity. Overall time lags between 0 and 24 h, periods of increased SGA (>50th percentile in IMF, SW, and Kp index) enhanced the effects of all three air pollutants on AF, while during periods of reduced SGA the associations were considerably weaker or absent. During periods of intense SW 6 h prior to an AF event, the odds ratio (OR) for PM2.5 exposure per interquartile range (IQR) of 5.6 µg/m3 was 1.7 [95% confident interval (CI) 1.3-2.3, P = 0.0001]. For periods of reduced SW, the OR for PM2.5 exposure per IQR was 1.2 (95% CI 0.9-1.5; P = 0.27). There were similar effects for PN and BC exposures. In patients with multiple AF events per hour, the associations with air pollutants during intense SGA were even greater. CONCLUSION: The effects of air pollutants up to 24 h before AF events were enhanced during periods of increased SGA. Our results suggest that these effects may account for variation in AF risk. Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved.
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