[The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in children of different regions of Ukraine]. / Rasprostranennost' sakharnogo diabeta u detei razlichnykh regionov Ukrainy.

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus among the children of Ukraine increased by 7% during the period from 1985 to 1992. The incidence that are revealed each year does not change. Different regions are significantly distinct from each other. The high and stable level of this disease incidence in Cherkassy Province, including cases revealed for the first time, two times exceeds these indices for Ukraine that attracts considerable interest.

[The distribution of histocompatibility antigens among donors (the city of Kiev)]. / Raspredelenie antigenov gistosovmestimosti u donorov (g. Kiev).

It was shown that the most frequent HLA antigens among Kiev residents are: in the locus A--antigen A2 (36.33%), A1 (25.0%), in the locus B--B8 (20.33%), B13 (17.33%), in the locus C--CW4 (18.0%) and CW2 (12.33%). The frequency of B5 antigen decreased from 26.67 to 11.67% and B12 antigen from 30.33 to 10.67% for the last 10 years. These data may be used as a control for to study the association of histocompatibility antigen system with the human pathology and for the formation of risk groups at some diseases.