title: [Medical and ecological assessment of climate effects on urolithiasis morbidity in population of Primorsky territory].
abstract: The article presents medicoecological estimation of quantitative relations between monsoon climate and urolithiasis primary morbidity in the Primorsky Territory. Quantitative estimation of the climate was performed by V. I. Rusanov (1973) who calculated daily meteorological data for 1 p.m. throughout 1991-1999. Primary urolithiasis morbidity for this period of time was provided by regional health department. The data were processed by methods of medical mapping and paired correlation analysis. In the Territory, mapping revealed the same location of the zones with high frequency of discomfortable weather of class V and VI causing chilblain in positive air temperatures and zones with elevated primary urolithiasis morbidity in children and adults. Correlation analysis confirmed mapping results and determined significant negative correlations between frequency of relatively comfortable moment weather classes II-IV and morbidity of children and adults, positive correlation between frequency of discomfortable class VI and adult morbidity. Thus, high frequency of days per year with discomfortable classes of moment weather in low positive air temperatures may be one of the factors of urolithiasis risk in population of the Primorsky Territory. Climatic factors should be taken into consideration in planning primary prophylaxis of this disease in the Primorsky Territory.
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Koval'chuk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002980:Climate; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011153:Population; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D014887:Weather