Correlations between geomagnetic field and global occurrence of cardiovascular diseases: evidence from 204 territories in different latitude

Table 2 Correlations between geomagnetic storm frequency in developed territories with different latitude and difference measures of CVD, IHD and stroke

Variates	Total areas			Near-polar region			Middle latitude			Near-equatorial region
Variates	Coef (95%CI)	R²	P	Coef (95%CI)	R²	P	Coef (95%CI)	R²	P	Coef (95%CI)	R²	P
CVD-M	14.007 (2.785, 25.229)	0.20	0.015	41.645 (-2.721, 86.011)	0.52	0.062	15.452 (3.131, 27.775)	0.25	0.015	-17.951 (-50.268, 14.365)	0.18	0.236
IHD-M	13.688 (6.040, 21.335)	0.24	0.001	39.703 (7.315, 72.092)	0.59	0.023	14.556 (6.998, 22.114)	0.32	0.000	-13.877 (-36.585, 8.831)	0.18	0.196
S-M	8.891 (4.928,12.855)	0.30	0.000	19.461 (2.314, 36.607)	0.53	0.031	9.212 (4.853, 13.572)	0.36	0.000	-2.144 (-11.429, 7.140)	0.15	0.609

^*GMS-F geomagnetic storm frequency, CVD cardiovascular diseases, IHD ischemic heart diseases, S stroke, M mortality, I incidence, p prevalence

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