Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Περιβάλλον και Υγεία: Διαχείριση Περιβαλλοντικών Θεμάτων με Επιπτώσεις στην ΥγείαLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Δημητροκάλλη Άρτεμις
Supervisors info:
Καθηγήτρια Κοσμικής Ακτινοβολίας, Τμήματος Φυσικής ΕΚΠΑ, Ε. Χριστοπούλου–Μαυρομιχαλάκη
Original Title:
Διαστημικός καιρός και ανθρώπινη υγεία
Translated title:
Space Weather and Human Health
Summary:
Biological systems, including human beings, are exposed to the influence of so
called space weather and are very sensitive to solar and geomagnetic activity
and to changes in these activities and their manifestations on the Earth.
Specifically, physical and biological effects associated with changes in solar
and geomagnetic activity include impacts not only on the central and vegetative
nervous system through changes of the human brain’s functional state and the
psycho-emotional state but also on the human cardiovascular state through
variations of physiological parameters such as heart rate and arterial
diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Additionally, the above changes (in
solar and geomagnetic activity) can affect the performance and reliability of
space and terrestrial technological systems as adverse conditions of space
weather (geomagnetic storms-solar disturbances-high energy particles) are one
of the main threats of modern technology.
The aim of this study is to examine the conditions of space weather and how
they impact not only on the human physiology, namely the heart rate but also on
space and terrestrial technological systems. Heart rate data 31 ambulatory
patients are examined as to the correlation with the corresponding values of
the daily change in the intensity of cosmic ray activity to a specified period
of the year 2003.
Keywords:
Space weather, Cosmic ray, Solar activity, Geomagnetic activity, Heart rate
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