Open AccessOn the etiology and incidence of adolescent basophilism
Author(s) -
N. V. Kayusheva
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj89383
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , etiology , physical development , medicine , soviet union , sexual maturity , demography , pediatrics , developmental psychology , psychology , pathology , endocrinology , political science , physics , sociology , politics , law , optics
The purpose of this work was to study the incidence of basophilism among schoolchildren and to elucidate its possible causes for the development of ways of prevention. To take into account the influence of geographical and social characteristics, it seemed expedient to examine schoolchildren in different points of the Soviet Union. We examined 6072 schoolchildren aged 10 to 16 years (2977 boys, 3095 girls) 2608 in Perm, 783 in the Perm region and 2681 in the Smolninsky district of Leningrad. At the same time, we paid attention to the physical and sexual development of the condition of the skin (the presence of stretch marks, pigmentation, dryness) and internal organs, the level of blood pressure, the size of the thyroid gland. When basophilism was found, these adolescents were surveyed in detail using a special questionnaire, and their development maps were studied.