Kudayeva I.V. 1
Budarina L.A. 1
1 Research Institute of Occupational Medicine and Human Ecology – FSBE ESSCHE SD RAMS
The results of the dynamic study on the changes in the main metabolism indices of the lipids in the operators of mechanical devices, the metal workers repairing the equipment, the engineers and other technical workers working at the caustic production are represented in this paper. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the production exposure to the metallic mercury vapours and the disorders in the lipid metabolism. The studies performed have allowed to reveal that the statistically signifi cant index worsening of the lipid metabolism was observed to occur in the process of the production exposure to mercury. The index increase in the atherogenecity which may change due to the increase in the concentration both as the cholesterol total and the pro-atherogenic alterations in its fractions in the whole-group has been revealed. The analysis of the lipid metabolism in the occupational groups has shown that the disbalance between the cholesterol fractions of the atherogenic direction was observed to occur in the operators of mechanical devices with the increase in the working time period duration was found to be followed by the increase in the cholesterol total level in the metal workers and the engineers and other technical workers.