The objective of the present study was to evaluate hair toxic metal levels in patients with obesity and/or coronary heart disease (CHD). Following a 2 × 2 factorial design, subjects without CHD were grouped into normal weight control (n = 123) and obese groups (n = 140). Patients suffering from CHD were divided into normal weight (n = 180) and obese CHD subjects (n = 240). Hair Al, As, Cd, Hg, Ni, and Pb levels were evaluated using inductively-coupled plasma mass-spectrometry. The data demonstrate that hair Al and Hg levels were higher in obese subjects as compared to normal weight controls. Normal weight CHD patients were characterized by significantly higher hair Al, As, Cd, and Pb levels when compared to healthy subjects. The highest hair Al, As, and Pb levels were observed in obese CHD patients, significantly exceeding the respective values in other groups. Factorial analysis revealed significant influence of factorial interaction (CHD*obesity) only for hair Pb content. Given the role of obesity as a risk factor for CHD, it is proposed that increased toxic metal accumulation in obesity may promote further development of cardiovascular diseases.
There are considered special social and economic aspects of the epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori. These aspects acquired the particular importance for the last time due to the fact that the provision of the people with pure water has been becoming the focus of the attention of geopolitical and socio-economic interests in a number of countries. The availability ofpure drinking water serves a marker of the socio-economic state of the territory and the population living there. In Russia where different climatic conditions are deposited by considerable regional differences in the conditions of communal services caused both by various level of the socio-economic development of the territory, the supplementation with pure drinking water serves as the social determinant of the ecological conditions of the population’s life. This particularly has impact on the unfeasible technical state of the water distribution systems, microorganism ecology of which can substantially affect public health. The performed by authors a specialized screening ofpresented at the official web site of the joint-stock company «Mosvodokanal» current data concerning the quality of drinking water consumed by 2500 Moscovites, tested for the Helicobacter pylori infection revealed no deviations from the sanitary standards in the water received by the consumers. Along with that, the comparison of the map documents of the distribution of the Helicobacter pylori infection in Moscow with the distribution of citizens’ complaints of the decline of the quality of tap water has revealed a territorial fastening of the high values of the population infection rate of n^ylori and the urban sites with the greatest number of complaints. In the microbial ecology of water-distribution systems there are tightly aligned problems of their epidemiological safety, technical state and economic damage caused by corrosion as a result of microbiotic activity. In contrast to acute bacterial and viral infections which are deemed of the greatest importance when assessing the sanitary condition of water sources and water-distribution systems, the consequences of infection with H. pylori may not be manifestedfor a long time but some years later they may be manifested as serious chronic diseases (from gastritis to adenocarcinoma of the stomach and a wide range of extraintestinal pathologies), which causes great social and economic losses. Thus, the socio-economic aspect of the epidemiology of helicobacteriosis includes at least two components: the technic - the maintenance of the feasible technic and sanitary state of the water distribution systems and the medico-social - expenditures for screening and treatment of infected patients. In total they are an inseparable part of the prevention of socially-important diseases in the public health system.
The experience of the use data of prophylactic examination in working groups for epidemiological studies is presented. A prevalence of chronic and background diseases in different age and gender groups is demonstrated as well as a prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection among the population and the shift in the work impact on the risk of health impairment in female workers. Data obtained can be used for the clinical and epidemiological analysis of the relationships between diverse pathologies and environmental and occupational factors with the view of optimization of financial expenditures. Data on prophylactic examinations are particularly valuable for the estimation the recent population health and environment to make decisions for prevention of widespread diseases.
INTRODUCTION. Chronic prostatitis is one of the most common urological nosologies, the third most common diagnosis in men under 50 years old. Existing scientific sources testify to the effectiveness of various physiotherapeutic interventions in patients with infectious-inflammatory diseases of the male reproductive system, complicated by erectile dysfunction.
AIM. The aim of the study was the scientific substantiation of high-intensity pulsed magnetic field application in patients with chronic prostatitis complicated by erectile dysfunction.
MATERIAL AND METHODS. The study included 60 patients randomized into two groups. The first group (30 people) received high-intensity pulsed magnetic field; the second group (30 people) received drug therapy.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. It was shown that the high clinical results of high-intensity pulsed magnetic field application were based on the compensation of local blood circulation conditioned by the improvement of the prostate blood flow according to the ultrasound of the prostatic vessels as well as by the elimination of the penile blood supply deficiency due to the improvement of the arterial vessels tone and elimination of venous stasis according to laser doppler flowmetry.
CONCLUSION. An innovative method has been developed to treat patients with chronic prostatitis complicated by erectile dysfunction using high-intensity pulsed magnetic field.
Introduction. Up to now, it has not been established whether Helicobacter pylori, the most common bacterial pathogen of human, is involved in cholelithiasis. Material and Methods. Based on the analysis of prophylactic medical examination of working people in the Moscow region, the determination the pyloric Helicobacter infection and assessment of the virulence of bacteria there were studied the associations of H. pylori infection and gallstones. The infection was detected by the presence of serum specific antibodies of IgG class, the virulence of the strain H. pylori - by the presence of total antibodies to the protein associated with the cytotoxic gene CagA. There was used enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The study included 1,487 people, 931 men and 556 women aged 21-77 years. Results. The H. pylori infection was detected in 1348 (90,6%), CagA protein in - 392 (56.2 %) cases. Gallstones were diagnosed in 72 patients, 21 men (2.3%) and 51 women (9.2%), 67 were seropositive (5% of all infected) and 5 - seronegative (3.6% uninfected). In cholelithiasis cases, the presence of CagA positive strain of H. pylori was investigated in 35 patients. A virulent strain of bacteria was detected in 26 cases (74%), much more often than in the rest examined persons. Conclusion. There were no statistically significant differences in the incidence of cholelithiasis in infected H. pylori and non-infected individuals. A significantly higher prevalence of infection with pathogenic strains of H. pylori in patients with gallstones was found in comparison with the whole group of examined patients, that indicates to the favor of possible involvement of H. pylori infection in this pathology. Confirmation of the role of H. pylori infection as a cumulative risk factor for the gallstones cholecystitis, as well as for other extragastral pathologies, may have an epidemiological, prophylactic, clinical application, due to its widespread prevalence. Further research is needed.
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