title: [Cerebrovascular diseases in Uzbekistan during the critical meteorological days of the "Afghan storm"].
abstract: The factors of a specific natural phenomenon of arid Uzbekistan, the "Afghan" wind, were studied against associated meteorological factors and incidence of cerebrovascular accidents. The findings show critical periods in which cerebral accidents and their lethal outcomes become most frequent: winter, spring (January, February and March, in particular). A close relationship exists between the invasion of the "Afghan" wind and cerebrovascular accidents. The day before the wind coming and during the first day of its blowing the occurrence of apoplexies and lethal outcomes thereof sharply grow. Meteorologically, this in explained by multifactorial meteorological changes before and during the wind passage. Prior to it, the atmospheric conditions create a hypotensive-hypoxic effect which later on is quickly replaced by spastic-tonic atmospheric effects. These sharp changes may be responsible for high incidence of cerebrovascular failures.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Madzhidov
authors.forename: Z Iu
authors.initials: ZIu
authors.lastname: Khalimova
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Kilichev
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D003889:Desert Climate; D004391:Dust; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008685:Meteorological Concepts; D012621:Seasons; D013997:Time Factors; D014610:Uzbekistan / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D004391:Dust
vernacular_title: Tserebrovaskuliarnye zabolevaniia v Uzbekistane v kriticheskie meteorologicheskie dni "afgantsa".