ABSTRACT
The article presents the results of a comprehensive staff survey of the objects of storage and destruction of toxic chemicals. It was established that the structure of morbidity predominated respiratory diseases, cardiovascular system, nervous system and gastrointestinal tract. There are features of development and a current of some somatic diseases.
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Cardiovascular Diseases/diagnosis , Chemical Warfare Agents/adverse effects , Gastrointestinal Diseases/diagnosis , Military Personnel , Nervous System Diseases/diagnosis , Occupational Exposure/adverse effects , Respiratory Tract Diseases/diagnosis , Adult , Cardiovascular Diseases/chemically induced , Cardiovascular Diseases/pathology , Cardiovascular Diseases/therapy , Gastrointestinal Diseases/chemically induced , Gastrointestinal Diseases/pathology , Gastrointestinal Diseases/therapy , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Nervous System Diseases/chemically induced , Nervous System Diseases/pathology , Nervous System Diseases/therapy , Respiratory Tract Diseases/chemically induced , Respiratory Tract Diseases/pathology , Respiratory Tract Diseases/therapyABSTRACT
Cytogenetical examination was made in 49 workers of higher chemical hazard enterprises and 26 dwellers from industrial communities, who were engaged in enterprise security. Analysis of chromosome aberrations (CA) in the examined groups revealed a 1.8-fold increase in total CA rates in the industrial community dwellers securing the enterprise as compared to the controls mainly due to the rise in the rate of single fragments. At the same time in the enterprise workers, the total level of CA was 2.36- and 4.1-fold greater than that in the population of industrial communities and in the controls, respectively; and it was also characterized by a broad spectrum of CA with the increased number of both chromatid and chromosomal exchange aberrations.
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Chemical Industry , Chromosome Aberrations/chemically induced , Hazardous Substances/toxicity , Occupational Exposure/adverse effects , Adult , Case-Control Studies , Chromosome Aberrations/statistics & numerical data , Cytogenetic Analysis , Humans , Lymphocytes/drug effects , Lymphocytes/ultrastructure , Male , Middle Aged , Russia , Workplace/standards , Young AdultABSTRACT
The article presents data dynamics of adaptive immune responses of people for a long time living in adverse environmental conditions caused by pollution of the environment by industrial toxic waste. It is shown that in the process of adaptation to adverse environmental factors, changes in the immune system are in the phase fluctuations of immunological parameters that are accompanied by changes in the structure of immunodependent pathology. Most sensitive to prolonged exposure to toxic compounds are the cellular mechanisms of immune protection. Violations of the structural and quantitative and functional parameters of the link of the immune system are leading to the formation of immunopathological processes.