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Authors

Nikitin Yury Petrovich
Academy of Polar Medicine and Extreme Human Ecology (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Khasnulin Vyacheslav Ivanovich
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Gudkov Andrey Borisovich
Northern State Medical University; Institute of Medical and Biological Research, Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

Abstract

The paper analyzes the results of long-term studies performed by specialists of scientific centres and academies in the northern regions of Russia. The obtained data give a thorough understanding of northern stress (“polar stress syndrome”) development in humans and its mechanisms under constant extreme climatic and geophysical conditions of high latitudes. This syndrome accelerates the depletion of adaptive reserves and causes a number of maladaptive disorders, and, as a result, chronic conditions. This insight into the mechanisms of northern stress as well as detection of previously unknown processes of human adaptation and maladjustment in the North, allowed us to better understand the development of hypertension, coronary heart disease, chronic obstruction lung disease, gastrointestinal disturbances, hepatopathies, diseases of the nervous, immune and endocrine systems as well as reproductive disorders in people who had previously lived in the North. In conclusion, the authors suggest the ways to preserve human health in the North.

Keywords

extreme human ecology, polar stress syndrome, maladjustment of the human body

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