[Nutritional status of workers from the viewpoint of their physical development]. / Sostoianie pitaniia rabochikh v aspekte ikh fizicheskogo razvitiia.

A total of 5665 workers of food and light industry were studied according to the investigation program on nutritional state during 1979-1983. Height, chest diameter, body mass and somatotype of each examinee (according to the Stremgren index) were determined. The contingent of workers studied was represented by age groups in decades from 18 to 70 years. While analyzing the nutritional state they were divided into 9 categories. The weight ranging from -10 to +9% of the optimal weight was considered to be normal. Men working in food industry showed increasing age groups having overweight beginning from 31-40 years of age. The percentage of women with overweight working in food industry was from 52.91 to 83.44. Obese women constituted a high percent. A similar nutritional state was recorded in women working in light industry: 90.38% had overweight at the age of 51-60 years. The analysis of the body mass among the eldest men and women, especially, (60-70 years) shows that those with lower body weight are more capable of working at the age of pension.

[Effect of lofenal on rat embryogenesis]. / Vliianie lofenala na émbriogenez krys.

The embryotoxic and teratogenic effect of lofenal was studied at different stages of embryogenesis of albino rats. Postimplantation death of embryos and foetus anomalies are stated to depend on both the dose of the administered preparation and on the period of embryogenesis.

[Schoolchild nutrition in the Lithuanian SSR]. / K voprosu o pitanii shkol'nikov Litovskoi SSR.

The nutrition of schoolchildren was studied on the ground of questionnaires, physiological characteristics of the schoolchildrens' organism, by considering their protein and vitamin C allowances and also by the nourishment status of children, these being classified according to groups of physical development adopted in the USSR.