title: [Health status and fitness of the young men for military service].
abstract: Submitted in the article are medical causes of unfitness of those men called up for military service in peace-time. These include psychic dysfunctions (22%), traumata (18.5%), disorders of the nervous system and sensory organs (14.5%), of the osteomuscular system and connective tissue (13.3%), digestive diseases (8.6%). Mental disorders, those of the nervous system and sensory organs, the endocrine system and digestive organs rank first among causes of striking the serviceman off the register, coming up to 40.9%, 31.2%, and 6.8% respectively. Age has been established at which disease manifestations causing unfitness for military service come to reveal themselves: in 58.4 percent of registrants the above manifestations were first diagnosed in childhood, in 5.4 percent--at 16 to 17 years of age, in 36.2 percent--at call-up age.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Korenev
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Bulaga
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Komlik
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Nemirova
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Kalmykov
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Sidorenko
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004194:Disease; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D010808:Physical Examination; D010809:Physical Fitness; D013223:Statistics as Topic
vernacular_title: Sostoianie zdorov'ia i prigodnost' iunosheĭ k sluzhbe v armii.