Key result
Geomagnetic field variations are linked to synchronized heart rate fluctuations in ~60% of experiments.
Why the study?
To continue studies on the phenomenology of heart rate fluctuation synchronization in humans at rest with geomagnetic field variations in the 3-40 min range.
Observational (n=3)
Heart rate fluctuations in healthy individuals may synchronize with specific frequencies of geomagnetic field variations, particularly at 3.5, 10-12, and 33-36 minute intervals.
No clinical implications for heart rate monitoring; leaves open geomagnetic synchronization effects in larger cohorts.
Studies of the phenomenology of the effect of synchronization of heart rate fluctuations in a person at rest with variations of the geomagnetic field in the range of 3–40 min periods have been continued. During 2012–2023, 508 experiments (lasting 100–120 min each) were conducted to monitor minute heart rate indicators in three practically healthy women (55, 45 and 30 years old). Individual experimental samples comprised 328, 113, and 67 records, respectively. It was shown that for each of the three volunteers, in about 60% of the experiments, the wavelet spectrum of heart rates turned out to be very close to the spectrum of synchronous variations of at least one of the horizontal components of the geomagnetic field (X or Y). As well, within the studied frequency range of 3–40 min, three sub-ranges were identified in which the degree of synchronicity of oscillation occurrence was maximum: 3.5 min, 10–12 min, and 33–36 min. It can be concluded that the effect of biogeosynchronization apparently did not occur uniformly over the entire range of 3–40 min, but mainly in these sub-ranges.
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Zenchenko et al. (2024) conducted an observational in Practically healthy (n=3). Geomagnetic field variations was evaluated on Synchronization of heart rate fluctuations with variations of the geomagnetic field. Geomagnetic field variations synchronized with heart rate fluctuations in about 60% of experiments, with maximum synchronicity at 3.5, 10-12, and 33-36 minute periods.
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