Myocardial infarction, geomagnetic factors and psychological status of the patients: are they related?

ABSTRACT

The analysis of 138 myocardial infarction [MI] cases has been carried out for the period of 366 days. The results were compared with prognostic and truly disturbed days when the geomagnetic pole was elevated [the data of Institute of Geophysics in Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany were used]. Hemodynamic parameters and psychological status of the patients with MI were determined according to MMPI test. It was noted that greater number of persons fell ill when prognostic and truly disturbed days coincided. No considerable increase in MI morbidity was found only in disturbed days. Certain specific psychological profile prevailed in patients who fell ill in coincided days, disturbed days and prognostic days known and unknown to the patients. It is proposed that the human organism becomes more sensitive to the geomagnetic factors when psychological and physical deadaptation occurs. This is also reflected by the destabilization of regulatory system of the organism