title: [Health status of the students of elementary mining and power engineering schools with special reference to arteriosclerosis and coronary disease risk factors].
abstract: The investigations were aimed at an evaluation of the health status of mining-and-power engineering school pupils from the viewpoint of classification to work at a strip mine and power station. Special attention was paid to the detection of possible causes of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease 811 boys aged 14--20 were examined. Their physical development was good. No pathologies in the respiratory tract were found. Hands force was normal. Of six analysed risk factors most frequent were: hypertension and smoking habit. The percentage of pupils affected was increasing with age: arterial hypertension (from 5.5% to 15.7%) and smoking habit (from 6.1% to 43.3%).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000209:etiology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D004738:Engineering; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008906:Mining; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology; D011210:Power Plants; D012306:Risk; D012907:Smoking; D013334:Students
vernacular_title: Stan zdrowia uczniów zasadniczej szkoły górniczej i energetycznej ze szczególnym uwzglednieniem wystepowania czynników zagrozenia miazdzyca naczyń i choroba wieńcowa.