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Based on analysis of materials provided by occupational safety department PC "UZEMiK" and JSC "Kauchuk", the authors evaluate contemporary work conditions and occupational morbidity in workers engaged into rubber, mechanical rubber and tyre industries.
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Industry , Occupational Diseases , Occupational Health/standards , Rubber , Workplace/standards , Humans , Morbidity , Occupational Diseases/epidemiology , Occupational Diseases/etiology , RussiaABSTRACT
The paper presents the results of studies of free radical oxidation (FRO) and antioxidant defense (AOD) in the blood, oral fluid, and urine of petrochemical industrial workers. The red blood cell, plasma, oral fluid, and urine values of FRO and AOD has been ascertained to be much pronounced in persons contacting chemical pollutants during production.
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Antioxidants/metabolism , Free Radicals/blood , Free Radicals/urine , Occupational Exposure/adverse effects , Solvents/adverse effects , Chemical Industry , Female , Humans , Male , Oxidation-ReductionABSTRACT
The authors present results obtained in a study of how rubber and technical rubber products influence acid and osmotic resistance of RBC in workers engaged into petrochemical industry. Findings are that the rubber and technical rubber products sensitize the RBC to osmotic and acidic lysis.
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Acids , Chemical Industry/statistics & numerical data , Erythrocytes/physiology , Occupational Diseases/blood , Occupational Diseases/epidemiology , Petroleum , Rubber , Humans , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Osmotic Pressure , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The article covers evaluation of health state in workers of main petrochemical workshops. Leading place in structure of transitory disablement morbidity in workers is occupied by cardiovascular and nervous disorders, diseases of liver, gastrointestinal tract and respiratory system.
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Chemical Industry , Health Status , Occupational Diseases/epidemiology , Occupational Health , Adult , Disability Evaluation , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Morbidity/trends , Risk Factors , Russia/epidemiology , Young AdultABSTRACT
Data on the impact exerted by industrial products, i.e. pyromellitic dianhydride, on the acidic and osmotic resistance of erythrocytes in workers are described. The influence of hazardous factors of the oil-and-chemical production was found to result in a changing erythrocytes' resistance (of workers) to the osmotic and acidic hemolytics with regard for a labor record and duration of contact with toxicants. The shifts in acidic and osmotic resistance can serve as an early marker of changes in the functional erythron's status in workers occupied under hazardous industrial factors.
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Air Pollutants, Occupational/adverse effects , Erythrocytes/drug effects , Hydrochloric Acid/adverse effects , Adult , Female , Hemolysis , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Osmotic Pressure , PetroleumSubject(s)
Casts, Surgical , Tibial Fractures/therapy , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Middle Aged , Tibial Fractures/surgery , Time FactorsABSTRACT
In the period from 1983 to May, 1988 229 patients were treated at the 2nd traumatological department of the Podolsk Central Regional Hospital for fractures of the diaphyses of the humerus and leg bones. The method of shortened plaster casts and early function was used among other methods in the treatment of 48 patients. The method requires strict indications with due consideration for the degree of instability, shortens the time of hospital stay by 8-10 days and the period of general incapacity by 15-18 days, and allows the patient's residual working capacity to be put into action early.
