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In Chorzów, the most polluted town in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, the characteristics of three groups of inhabitants, workers of the Chemical Nitrogen Plant, the Steelworks, and the Slaughterhouse was done. Among the similar groups in respect to age and a number of males and females, the attention was paid to work, life and recreation conditions, to nutritional habits and additional customs of cigarette smoking and alcohol using. The subjective self-determination of own health was compared with objective complaints or symptoms presented in anamneses and past diseases, as well as were confronted with results of biochemical estimation of urine fluoride excretion and blood lead content. The other related results, namely magnesium concentration, urine ALA and porfobilinogen contents, erythrocyte glutathione, blood glucose, lactate and ATP levels as indices of energy and carbohydrate metabolism were presented, as well as finally (Na, K)-ATPase activity, necessary for cell membrane potential formation. The mechanisms leading to physical and psychical health depletion was demonstrated, and a new possibility of prophylactic and therapeutic actions was stressed. |
