Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Jan 2002
[Assessing the relationship between the air pollution and incidence of respiratory diseases in the Primor'e territory].
The prevalence of respiratory diseases in the Primorye territory is discussed. Ecological risk of air pollution effects on respiratory morbidity is estimated. High ecological risk of respiratory diseases in the cities of the region is determined by car transport waste discharge. Children and adolescents are more sensitive to air pollution and more often suffer from respiratory diseases.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Jan 2002
[Factors contributing to the pollution of the environment in a large industrial center].
Many-year (1993-1998) comparative hygienic evaluation of industrial and car transport waste discharge in five regions of Samara, making use of systemic analysis methods, helped single out the most significant chemical compounds and develop a mathematical model of the effects of industrial waste in a large city on the development of bronchopulmonary diseases.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Jan 2002
[Relationship between emotional stress in female residents of the city of Chapaevsk and toxicological and genetic values].
The severity of stress was evaluated in 45 female residents of the town of Chapaevsk (3 groups, 14-15 females each, with different levels of exposure to dioxins) using 5 standard psychological questionnaires. The results of testing were correlated to plasma dioxin concentrations and levels of chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes of the same donors. ⋯ The severity of stress correlated with plasma dioxin concentrations (p < or = 0.001) and levels and spectra of chromosomal aberrations in peripheral blood cells (p < or = 0.05, p < or = 0.01 in different tests). Presumably, one of the causes of high level of chromosomal aberrations in these women is dioxin-induced decrease of the adaptation potential, resulting in increase of the genome sensitivity to genotoxic factors of other origin).
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Jan 2002
[Infectious diseases in children living under conditions of technology-related pollution of atmospheric air].
Epidemiological and clinical studies in children with acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) and viral hepatitis A (HVA), living in zones with different levels of technogenic pollution of the atmosphere, showed that the incidence and clinical course of viral infections in children depended on the technogenic pollution of the environment, this effect being the more pronounced, the higher the level of xenobiotics in the air. Children living under conditions of high technogenic pollution of the environment should be regarded as a group at risk of more severe ARVI and HVA with complications.