title: [Health of Tbilisi underground metro workers under modern social and economic conditions in Georgia].
abstract: The aim of the research was to study the health of Tbilisi underground metro workers under modern social-economic conditions in Georgia. Occupational pathology of the cardiovascular, digestive systems, psycho-emotional state, osteo-articular apparatus were found statistically significant among the basic group workers, more frequently in comparing with a control group without professional contact to major harmful factors (vibration, noise, meteorological conditions, air pollution environment with dust and toxic gases p<0.001). On the basis of hygienic-clinical relationship between working conditions and a state of health are established.
authors.affiliation: Tbilisi State Medical University, Department of Environmental Health and Occupational Medicine, Georgia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khunashvili
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsimakuridze
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kverenchkhi-Ladze
authors.forename: Maia P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Tsimakuridze
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bakradze
mesh_terms: D005846:Georgia (Republic) / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*