Medicoecological assessment of climate effectson urolithiasis morbidity in population of the Primorsky territory

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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