[Medicoepidemilogical assessment of the incidence of noncommunicable diseases in the population living in Yerevan].
To examine the clinical and epidemiological features of non-communicable diseases at the population-based level is a highly promising line of the present-day studies in preventive medicine. The paper presents the data of the author's long-term hygienic studies of the health status of children in the organized collective bodies. Environmental pollution was found to affect the health status of not only children, but also that of adults. There is a geographical irregularity in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases by the microdistricts. At the same time, the pollution is caused by the fact that in Yerevan, there are numerous industrial enterprises and motor vehicles whose emission generates a high pollution, by increasing the incidence of respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases as compared with that in the dwellers living in a control non-industrial microdistrict.
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D001136:Armenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D018876:Environmental Illness / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000379:methods*