Critical fluctuation in daily incidence of acute myocardial infarction

Continuous periodogram power spectral analysis of daily incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) reported at a hospital for cardiology in Pune, India for the two-year period June 1992–May 1994 show that the power spectra follow the universal and unique inverse power law form of the statistical normal distribution. The same time inverse power law form for power spectra of space-time fluctuations are also ubiquitous to dynamical systems in nature and have been identified as signatures of self-organized criticality. The unique quantification for self-organized criticality presented in this paper is shown to be intrinsic to quantumlike mechanics governing fractal space-time fluctuation patterns in dynamical systems and suggest a possibly fruitful relation and analogy between different subject such as chaos, diffusion and quantum physics