Unguryanu Tatiana

• Northern State Medical University

Background Alcohol-related mortality in Russia exceeds the world average and presents a critical public health concern. This study assesses the impact of alcohol consumption levels on mortality and investigates mortality predictors among Russians, including people treated for alcohol-related diagnoses (narcology patients). Methods We examined 2629...

Investigating the relationship between alcohol consumption and physical performance, we used data from the 2015–2018 Know Your Heart study on 4215 adults aged 35–69 from Arkhangelsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. We classified participants’ drinking status into non-drinking, non-problem drinking, hazardous drinking, and harmful drinking based on their se...

В Архангельской области наблюдается тенденция роста общей заболеваемости артериальной гипертензией (АГ). Несмотря на простоту диагностики АГ и доступность лечения, около половины больных АГ не осведомлены о своем заболевании и его последствиях, не принимают рекомендованные препараты. В сочетании с суровыми климатических условиями северных регионов...

There is conflicting evidence about the association between alcohol consumption and body composition (BC). We aimed to investigate this association in Russian adults. The study population included 2357 residents of Arkhangelsk aged 35–69 years, and 272 in-patients treated for alcohol problems (narcological patients) who participated in the Know You...

This study aimed to investigate associations between the weather conditions and the frequency of medically-treated, non-fatal accidental outdoor fall injuries (AOFIs) in a provincial region of Northwestern Russia. Data on all non-fatal AOFIs that occurred from January 2015 through June 2018 (N = 1125) were extracted from the population-based Shenku...

Population registries consolidate information about cases of disease among the geographically limited population at the national, regional or municipal levels. The main tasks of registries are to monitor the levels of prevalence, to study risk factors, and to evaluate effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive measures. Currently, in the Russian Fe...

Background The Shenkursk Injury Registry (SHIR) was established in the Shenkursk District, Northwestern Russia in 2015 for the purposes of primary prevention. The SHIR covers all injuries (ICD-10 diagnoses from S00 to T78) for which medical aid is given at the Shenkursk central district hospital and includes data about injury circumstances. We used...

From 1 January 2015, the first Russian population-based injury register has been routinely used for registration of all traumas requiring medical assistance in the municipality of Shenkursk, Arkhangelsk region. It was built up on the injury registration model that was used in Harstad, Norway. The aims of the injury registry are to monitor injury ra...

Paramount problems of the development of the assessment of population health risks associated with the chemical exposure in Russia are considered on the ground of critical analysis of reports devoted to methodological issues of the risk assessment and guidelines published since 2010. Causes of the lack in progress of risk assessment are discussed....

There was made the characterization of the health risk for workers' of pulp and paper industry, under the simultaneous effects of chemicals in the residential and working area. The main adverse effect of chemicals that pollute the air and work environment is related with the impact on the respiratory system. Under the successive exposure (ambient a...

The descriptive epidemiological study on the prevalence of “school” pathology in the child population and the influence of the conditions of educational environment in kindergartens and schools in the Arkhangelsk Region was performed. It was found that the main health problems detected during preventive medical examinations of the children and adol...

The cross-sectional epidemiological study has been performed to identify peculiarities of health risk factors perception by different categories of medical workers in the Vologda Hospital. Radioactive (91.4 %), chemical (87.6 %) and microbiological (73.7 %) pollution was perceived by the respondents as bringing the highest risk to health. The avera...

In this paper we present general principles of correlation analysis and its use in biomedical research. Practical examples of correlation analysis are given. Calculations of Pearson’s and Spearmen’s correlation coefficients are presented using formulas and STATA software. Main assumptions for the use of correlation analysis are discussed as well as...

В статье рассматриваются теоретические основы применения критерия Краскела - Уоллиса для сравнения трех и более независимых групп количественных или порядковых данных. Приводится пример расчета критерия «вручную» с помощью формул, а также пошаговый алгоритм использования его в пакете статистических программ STATA. Особое внимание уделяется необходи...

In the article, we have presented theoretical principles of one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for comparisons of three or more independent groups. Examples of the use of ANOVA with manual calculations using formulas have been given as well as algorithms of the use of ANOVA in STATA software. Special consideration has been given to the assumption...

With the purpose of the analysis of general trends in the development of risk assessment methodology in Russia the results obtained with the her help, as well as existing methodological problems, there was performed a review of 68 published works concerning the assessment of the health risk for population under the exposure to chemicals in drinking...

This is the first article of the series of publications in the Human Ecology journal on biostatistics using STATA software. Earlier series of methodological papers published in 2008 was adapted to SPSS software. However, the price for SPSS in Russia considerably increased in recent years that led to the fact that many institutions switch from SPSS...

JSC "Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill" employees susceptibility to adverse factors of the work environment and process has been studied. A cross-sectional study has been conducted to explore prevalence of various disease groups among the employees of JSC "APPM" main production units. It has been discovered that the mill's employees under 40 years of...

Food contamination in the Arkhangelsk region has been studied. The average concentration of nitrates (82.4 mg/kg) in vegetables and fruits of local production was 1.4 times higher comparing to the hygienic standard. The hazard index (HI) and the individual cancer risk index (CR) were used to study contaminants impact on health. Non-cancer risk was...

To assess daily variations in ambulance calls for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), mental and behavioral disorders, and external causes in Arkhangelsk, Northwest Russia, in 2000-2008. A population-based study. Data about all ambulance calls during the years 2000-2008 were obtained from the Arkhangelsk ambulance station. Information about patient's g...

Assessment of soil epidemic hazard in the Arkhangelsk region was carried out using the data of monitoring in 2007- 2010. Incidence of geohelminthoses among the Arkhangelsk region population in 1995-2010 has been analyzed. The level of soil contamination by microorganisms of E. coli group in the urban areas was 10 times higher in comparison with the...