[Hygienic aspects of the lifestyle of medical students under the present conditions].

The paper gives the results of a study of the lifestyle of medical students. The students' motor activity has been found to be lower and to continue to drop in the undergraduates. Examination of the daily routine has shown that 92% of the students break the study-and-rest routine; the reported reasons for this are a high academic load, a prolonged academic day, a study-work combination, mental stress during examinations, and computer-aided learning. The students' nutrition is inadequate in major nutrients, poor-quality, irregular, and uncontrolled. The college crowd shows a preponderance of bad habits; 85% of cases had these or those combinations of risk factors: smoking, low motor activity, overweight, alcohol consumption, etc.

[Hygienic aspects of healthy life style development in students].

Medical students have shown a high prevalence of major behavioral factors of health risk, such as inadequate physical activity, changes in the routine, nutrition quality, study-and-rest regimens, as well as smoking and frequent alcohol use. Proposals to educate the students on the importance of living a healthy lifestyle are given.

[The level of secretory immunoglobulin A in the saliva and the body resistance of medical workers in the dental field]. / Uroven' sekretornogo immunoglobulina A v sliune i rezistentnost' organizma meditsinskikh rabotnikov stomatologicheskogo profilia.

Examinations of a group of dentists revealed that work at dentistry rooms involving a close contact of personnel with numerous allergens is conducive to decreasing the level of secretory IgA in the saliva. This indicates deterioration of the immune defense system of the body, particularly grave in nurses, orthodontists, and dental technologists.