Way of life as emphasizing factors in the progression of idiophatic scoliosis in adolescence era.

INTRODUCTION: Idiopathic scoliosis is a significant health problem which occurs in 2%-4% school kids in adolescent age. Reasons of occurrence are not quite clear, there are many theories, but probably it is multifactor disease. Among the theories that are mentioned some of them included environmental and behavioral factors. AIM: Research the impact of some environmental and behavioral factor on development and progression of idiopathic scoliosis in school kids. METHODOLOGY: Research was conducted on 421 pupil in adolescent age, where 120 pupils was from urban schools and 301 pupil from rural schools. Environmental factors and habits like the bigger osteomuscular structure mobility at kids from rural schools, longer outdoor time spending, different nutrition, alcoholism and smoking, different obligations, etc. factors which can be cause of scoliosis development. RESULTS: In this research we assumed that different environmental and behavioral factors of school kids, which exist in rural and urban areas, can develop to different expression of scoliosis in these areas. In our research we proved that the scoliosis occurrence is more often in urban areas than in rural (Fisher's exact test P<0.001). CONCLUSION: It is necessary to research all factors of lifestyle individually, which are different between the urban and rural kids.

Status of lipids and the frequency diseases of cardiovascular origin in smokers according to the length period of smoking and a number of cigarettes smoked daily.

Cigarette smoking affects all phases of atherosclerosis from endothelial dysfunction to acute occlusive clinical events. The problem is, whether the length of the period of cigarette smoking has a more reflection to the status of lipids and illnesses of cardiovascular system or the bigger number of smoked cigarettes in a shorter time-period? The observed sample has constituted of two groups of smokers, both gender, age 25-64 years old. The first group consisted of 210 examinees divided in 7 subgroups according to a number of years they have been smoking. The second group consisted of 150 examinees, which was divided in 5 subgroups, according to average number of cigarettes smoked daily. The average values of serum cholesterol (6.98 vs. 6.13 mmol/L), triglycerides (3.15 vs. 3.13 mmol/L) and LDL-cholesterol (3.80 vs. 3.64 mmol/L) were always higher in a group of smokers according to a number of daily smoked cigarettes. Average value of smoking consumption period was higher in a group of smokers according to the length of smoking consumption period than in a group of smokers according to a number of cigarettes smoked daily (20.34 y vs. 13.55 y.). Hypertension (72% vs. 30.9%), angina pectoris (44.6% vs. 20.4%), CHD (30.6% vs. 22.8%) and myocardial infarction (16% vs. 11.4%) appeared much more in the group of smokers according to a number of cigarettes smoked daily. More reflection to the status of lipids and illnesses of cardiovascular system has the bigger number of smoked cigarettes daily than the length of the period of cigarette smoking.

[Some of middle age smokers' attitudes against smoking]. / Neki od stavova pusaca srednje zivotne dobi prema pusenju.

UNLABELLED: Smoking is pandemic spread in all parts of the population. Particularly, this is an autodestructive blind impulse or the vice. THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM: This rough of smoking today incites an important interest, same with nonsmokers as with smokers, so the understanding of the harmfulness of smoking to their health in the population of the middle-age smokers has been the cause for this investigation. The aim of the investigation was to show the attitude of smokers toward smoking in a prospective study. The selection was performed according to the settled rules, as well as inquiry of 280 examinees, workers of Furniture Factory "Krivaja-Zavidovici". The examination group formed 140 smokers and the control group 140 nonsmokers, of the same age 35-45 years, and both gender. Received results were prepared statistically and the differences between groups were certified with chi2 test and t-test to the level of tasked signification ? = 0.05. RESULTS: Relativly high percentage of smoker examinees (84.28%) confessed to consider smoking to be harmful to their health; still, they continue to smoke. DISCUSSION: The establishing of these precise indexes, which show the attitude of smoker-examinees toward smoking enables developing of strategic, along with simultaneous forecaster estimation of succesful prevention, in the sense of the conduction of this program about quitting smoking. CONCLUSIONS: Among workes of Furniture Factory "Krivaja-Zavidovici" high percentage of smoker examinees (84.28%) confessed to consider the smoking harmful to their health. Smoker examinees in more than 50% cases would like quitting to smoke.