Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 1999
Comparative Study[The evaluation of the effect of chemical and radiation factors on the health of the population in an industrial city].
Kamensk-Ural'skiy, Sverdlovsk Province, is one of the Russian industrial cities and towns exposed to a combination of radiation and chemical pollutions. This is a large industrial center of the mid-Urals, where enterprises of ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, power engineering. ⋯ Comparing its matched areas by using routine analytical methods has defined the contribution of radiation to increased morbidity in different age groups, which is caused by a combination of chemical and radiation pollutions of the environment. The incidence of concomitant diseases may be an important additional indicator of the impact of environmental pollution on human health.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 1999
[The effect of their life style and ecological factors on the health status of pre-draft-age youth].
Assessing the health indices in 330 adolescents aged 14-17 years who live in different microdistricts of an oil-processing center has demonstrated that adolescents of today are taller than those of the 1980s. Their body weight and chest circumference are greater only in 14-16-year-old adolescents, the lung capacity (LC) is higher only in 14-year-olds. Normal physical development was observed in 47.8-71/9%. ⋯ The adolescents residing in the more polluted microdistricts show less increases in their growth (8.4 vs 10.8 cm), body weight (8.1 vs 14.7 kg, and resting chest circumference (5.1 vs 7.5 cm). Gradual exercise testing has revealed asthenic and hypertensive CVS responses in 20% (13.4% in a less polluted area). By physical development, as high as 41.3% of adolescents are referred to health group II, in the less polluted area, this health group has been established only in 14-year-old adolescents.