[Epidemiologic evaluation of immune deficiency and other chronic pathology among the adult population of Bryansk region, living in radionuclide-contaminated territory].

Abstract

Immune deficiency epidemiological survey covered adult population of the town of Vyshkov in the Bryansk region of Russia referred to the zone of radionuclide contamination hazard after the Chernobyl accident. A total of 3892 subjects were examined for the leading immunopathological syndromes (infectious, allergic atopic, autoimmune, lymphoproliferative) according to a specially devised technique developed in the Research Institute of Immunology in Moscow. Immune deficiency risk group made up 10.25% which is much higher than relevant value for control rural population of the southern Urals exposed to low-dose radiation and of polluted region in the East Siberia. The quantitative analysis indicated more frequent occurrence of infectious and lymphoproliferative syndromes of immune deficiency in the absence of radiation-related allergic diseases in the town of Vyshkov.