[Prevalence of smoking in Izhevsk].

The purpose of the investigation was to study the prevalence of smoking as the most aggressive risk factor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in different populations of a large industrial center. A questionnaire survey was conducted in 485 schoolchildren, 427 students, and 1406 adults from Izhevsk. The smoking rates were 73.4, 20.5, and 36.3 per 100 respondents among men, women, and students, respectively. Among the schoolchildren from the 9th to 11th forms, the number of smokers increased from 29.0 to 48.9 and from 10.2 to 11.2 per 100 respondents in boys and girls, respectively. The smokers with higher education were fewer than those with secondary and secondary specialized education.

[Analysis of protein- and oligomer-bound fucose in blood serum]. / Metod opredeleniia belok- i oligomersviazannoi fukozy v syvorotke krovi.

A new method was suggested that provides for a simultaneous determination of protein- and oligomer-bound fucose in blood serum. The level of such compounds in blood serum was shown to be increasing with age and in certain diseases.

[Chronic congenital Coxsackie virus infection in the etiology of allergic disease in children]. / Khronicheskaia vrozhdennaia Koksaki-virushaia infektsiia i ee uchastie v étiologii allergicheskikh boleznei, vyiavliaemykh u detei.

The authors prove the involvement of congenital Coxsackie virus infection in the etiology of allergic diseases in children: 1) indications of high risk of vertical transmission of viruses of this group from mothers with persistent infection to children are more incident in the history of mothers whose children develop allergies in comparison with healthy age-matched children (83 vs. 38.8%); 2) Coxsackie viruses are detected in sick children more often than in healthy ones (58.1-81.1 vs. 7.4%); 3) the persistence of Coxsackie A and B viruses is confirmed in the majority of patients examined over time; 4) in the mothers examined in parallel with their sick children Coxsackie viruses were detected virtually as often as in their children; and 5) reduction of endogenous chronic Coxsackie infection by energy metabolism correction in the risk group women during pregnancy prevents the development of allergic diseases in their children.