Influence of occupational risk factors on health of tire plant workers.

Analysis of health state in connection with work conditions for workers of Voronezh tire plant was based on evaluation of occupational and general morbidity according to medical examination data, hygienic characteristics of occupational factors and working process. Findings are high level of general morbidity among the workers, related to combined influence of physical and chemical occupational hazards. First rank places are occupied by locomotory system diseases (32.3%) and cardiovascular diseases (29.3%). Recommendations cover decrease of unfavorable effects of occupational hazards, minimization of occupational risks, including further improvement of work conditions and implementation of laboratory biochemical methods diagnosing premorbid conditions.

Relationship of study conditions and health state of high education students.

The article presents results of study concerning relationship of educational conditions and health state of high education students in 3 institutes of Voronezh city. Subjective self-assessment of health covered first 3 years students of Voronezh State Medical university (VSMU), Voronezh State university of engineering technologies (VSUET) and Voronezh State Construction university (VSCU). Health worsening was seen in 50,2% of VSMU students, in 28,7% of VSUET students and in 23,9% of VSCU examinees since beginning of the high education, and revealed breach of legislation concerning requirements of high education conditions are nearly identical.

[Hyperbaric oxygenation in inhalation poisoning with substances with varying mechanisms of action (styrene, toluene and carbon monoxide]. / Giperbaricheskaia oksigenatsiia pri ingaliatsionnoi intoksikatsii veshchestvami s razlichnym mekhanizmom deistviia (stirol, toluol i oksid ugleroda]

The disintoxicating mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) on inhalation intoxication with substances from different chemical classes (aromatic hydrocarbons and carbon oxide) were investigated in rats. HBO was demonstrated to have a significant effect on the whole array of the studied parameters (physiological, morphological, and biochemical ones), on lipid peroxidation (LP) in particular. The levels of LP products in the liver, brain, blood became normal and the antioxidative system was stimulated as well. The most striking effect of HBO therapy on inhalation of toxic agents taken in the mean or maximum lethal concentrations was noted in the use of carbon oxide.