IMPORTANCE OF ETHNIC DIFFERENCES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE NORTH WITH REGARD TO THE CHILDREN’S CHRONIC TONSILLITIS

This article delivers an analysis of the chronic tonsillitis prevalence on the territory of the Russian Federation for the federal districts and in different ethnic groups of children’s population living in the North (Near the Arctic and the Arctic regions). The study has been conducted on the base of an analysis of information received from the Federal Children’s Health Examination Monitoring Database for 5 years (2005—2009). Statistically-valid higher prevalence of the chronic tonsillitis among the children of the indigenous people of the North has been detected. Considering such specificity as reduced cell energy exchange among the indigenous (Mongoloid) population which was formed as a result of centuries-long adaptation to the climatic extremes, a guess has been made that cell energy exchange contributed to formation of the chronic tonsillitis in the children.

chronic tonsillitis, children, epidemiology, mitochondrial insufficiency, energy deficiency, mitochondrial enzymes, indigenous Arctic ethnic groups, adaptation