Premorbid markers of cardiovascular diseases in mining industry workers
Ustinova, O.I.; Vlasova, E.M.; Luzhetskii, k.P.; Ivashova, I.A.; Belitskaia, V.E.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 12: 28-31
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 25854079 Document Number: 674369
Functional studies of cardiovascular system in mine cutting machine operators with 10 years of underground length of service under exposure to occupational hazards (air pollution with sylvinite dust, noise, general and local vibration, increased humidity, absent natural illumination, work hardiness and intensity), helped to establish premorbid markers of cardial diseases--labile arterial hypertension, disordered processes of myocardial excitability, conductivity and automatism, higher thickness of intima-media complex in extracranial branches of brachiocephalic arteries. To decrease cardiovascular morbidity in mine cutting machine operators, the authors recommend additional blood pressure monitoring and ultrasound study of intima-media complex of extracranial brachiocephalic arteries within periodic medical examinations.