Author/Editor		Vernickaite, Ruslana; Kačergiene, Nella
Title		Pregnant women's health and environment
Type		članek
Source		In: Hočevar A, Črepinšek Z, Kajfež-Bogataj L, editors. Biometeorology 14. Proceedings of the 14th international congress of biometeorology. Part 2. (Vol 3); 1996 Sep 1-8; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: Slovenian meteorological society,
Publication year		1996
Volume		str. 174-82
Language		eng
Abstract		New data on the changes of some homeostatic indices (WBC, RBC, HGB, HCT, MCU) and their link with meteorological, heliogeophysical parameters and maximum concentrations of 8 chemical pollutants in the atmospheric air at the 22nd solar cycle maximum period in pregnant women (with extragenital, genital pathology, anemia of pregnancy, toxicosis of the 1st and 2nd parts of pregnancy as well as specific features of pregnancy termination) are provided. We have identified that a complex of endogenic (pregnancy pathology, changes in homeostatic indices - incrased or reduced) and exogenic (meteorological, heliogeophysical, chemical pollutants) factors forms the specific features of pregnant women's adaptive and compensatory homeostatic mechanisms. The incresed indices of natural factors and maximum concentrations of chemical pollutants (sulphuric dioxide, ammonium, formaldehyde) in the atmospheric air have an effect on the homeostasis of pregnants, hypoxia develops, this having an unfavourable effect on a woman's organism and fetal intrauterine ontogenesis.
Descriptors		ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE AIR POLLUTION METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS SOLAR ACTIVITY PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS PREGNANCY HOMEOSTASIS