Health status of rural schoolchildren in the TASSR

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We conducted a continuous survey of 1134 schoolchildren in five villages of the Tatar ASSR. The following deviations in the state of their health were found: dental caries in 83.8 per 100 examinees; endemic enlargement of the thyroid gland in 54.0; endemic goiter in 2.9; posture disorders in 30.2; scoliosis in 12.1; residual effects of rickets in 11.5; somatic pathology in 25.9.

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I. Sh. Trofimova

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A. M. Khakimova

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© 1986 Trofimova I.S., Khakimova A.M.

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