Published January 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Epidemiology of bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus in children and teenagers of Ozyorsk town situated in the area of mayak nuclear enter-prise supervision zone

  • 1. Southern-Ural Institute of biophysics, Ozyorsk (Russian Federation)

Description

The epidemiology of bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus in children and teenagers living in Ozyorsk town, which is situated in Mayak nuclear enterprise supervision zone, was studied. By the medical and statistical data in Ozyorsk for the studying forms of multifactorial diseases the trends to the increase both for primary incidence and prevalence were marked. By using the genetic and epidemiological analysis we marked the higher ratio of accumulated incidence as a probability to fall ill with multifactorial diseases (bronchial asthma and diabetes mellitus) in population of Ozyorsk city till 20 years old in comparison with Moscow population

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
International Journal of Radiation medicine
Journal Volume
6
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 130
ISSN
1562-1154

Conference

Title
4. International Conference 'Chernobyl children - health effects and psychosocial rehabilitation'
Original Conference Title
IV Mezhdunarodnaya Konferentsiya 'Deti Chernobylya - meditsinskie posledstviya i sotsial'no psikhologicheskaya reabilitatsiya'
Dates
3 Jun 2003
Place
Kyiv (Ukraine)