Psychosomatic disorders in combined occupational and cardiovascular diseases
Tret'iakov, S.V.; Shpagina, L.A.; Khabarova, E.A.; Ermakova, M.A.; Kurikova, S.M.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 1: 18-24
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 21442941 Document Number: 653726
A group of individuals with occupational diseases caused by chemical factors demonstrate higher incidence and severity of depression, frustration, rigidity, cognitive and sleep disorders, if compared to the group of individuals with occupational diseases caused by physical factors. In the occupational diseases group, encephalopathy is seen more frequently, individuals subjected to physical factors have prevailing encephalopathy of I and II grades, those subjected to chemical factors--of II-III and III grades, more severe encephalopathy in the group of chemical factors is seen among the individuals subjected to uranium compounds.