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Urals Russia: Cities with high child respiratory ailments

Shiloh

Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.66.ru/news/health/45997/

Google translation:

Today [13:47]
Named the Urals city, where children often suffer from asthma and pneumonia

Four of the city of Sverdlovsk region hit the ?top? in pediatric respiratory diseases.
As described in today's press conference in Yekaterinburg, Chief Pediatric pulmonologist area Irina Shuliak, most respiratory disease in children and adolescents found in Yekaterinburg, Revda, Pervouralsk and Nizhny Tagil. The increased incidence of bronchial asthma, pneumonia, obstructive bronchitis and respiratory infections contributes to the high concentration of automobile exhausts, the availability of industrial enterprises, as well as the density of contacts between people.

According to Irina Shuliak, if 10 years ago in the Middle Urals suffered from bronchial asthma, 2 children in a thousand, but today - already 14. According to the year 2008, the region suffered from the disease, 2 thousand 800 children. In addition, the large number of sickly viral respiratory infections children under 3 years: they get sick 6-8 times a year.

As for the overall morbidity, its level significantly exceeded in 13 cities in the region: Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Severouralsk, Kamensk-Uralsk, Krasnouralsk, Revda and others. As noted by the head of the department of social and hygienic monitoring of the Regional Office of Rospotrebnadzor Olga Small, about 73% of the population of the Middle Urals live in large industrial cities. Of these, 80% suffer Coupled with environmental illness. According to him, the damage from disease Urals over the past year amounted to more than 10 billion rubles.
 
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