title: [Comparative study of some clinical and laboratory indicators in a group of patients using wells as source of drinking water and a control group using safe water].
abstract: In time, well water, as a source of drinking and coking water, with physical-chemical, bacteriological, and biological indicators suggestive of alteration in water potability, determines complex, sometimes irreversible, metabolic disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty individuals residing in a rural community were divided into 2 groups: study group -30 subjects using well water, and control group--30 subjects using safe water. For the study group the selection criteria were: age, sex, use of well water as drinking and cooking water, history suggestive of chronic poisoning (pregnancy course, birth weight, susceptibility to infectious agents, and current chronic diseases).
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the study group, gestosis, prematurity, and altered body mass index are more frequent as compared to the subjects in the control group. The identified laboratory changes indicate moderate anemia, hepatic cytolysis, dyslipidemia, presence of nitrites in urine, and positive urine cultures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Long-term use of water with mineral constituents in excess, absent, or inadequate, the direct biological and chemical water pollution, or most frequently the indirect pollution through the soil determine, in time, complex, sometimes irreversible, metabolic disorders.
authors: Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie "Gr. T. Popa" Iaşi, Facultatea de Bioinginerie Medicală.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Vasilescu
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Ciochină
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D060766:Drinking Water / Q000032:analysis / Q000592:standards*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D008297:Male; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009573:Nitrites / Q000652:urine; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000139:chemically induced; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards; D060986:Water Wells / Q000032:analysis / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D060766:Drinking Water; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D009573:Nitrites; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical