Health assessment of children and adolescents living in a residential area of production for the disposal of rocket fuel: according to the results of the medical examination

• Main Authors: Uiba V.V., Tarakanova S.Y., Alekhnovich A.V., Afanas'yev A.N.
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Saratov State Medical University 2014-12-01
• Series: Саратовский научно-медицинский журнал
• Subjects: adolescent; children; Federal Biomedical Agency; health; medical checkup; rocket fuel
• Online Access: http://www.ssmj.ru/system/files/2014_04-01_732-734.pdf

<p>Aim: to determine the real prevalence separate nosological forms in the child population living in residential zone installations for the disposal of rocket fuel. Materials and methods. By mobile teams of pediatric physicians there was conducted a comprehensive medical examination of 1621 children in the area of the site location for disposal of rocket engines solid fuel. Results. The surveyed contingent of the most common diseases of the endocrine system, disorders of nutrition and metabolism (21.2% of diagnoses), diseases of the musculoskeletal and connective tissue (19.2 percent), as well as individual symptoms, signs and deviations from the norm by 14.4%. Conclusion. Data indicating the pronounced impact of adverse environmental factors, not identified.</p>