INCIDENCE PARTICULARITIES OF METHEMOGLOBINEMIA CASES IN BACĂU COUNTY DURING 2000 – 2005 PERIOD
Journal Title: Present Environment and Sustainable Development - Year 2008, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The methemoglobinemy annual monitoring within the National Communitarian Health Program represented the support of the descriptive epidemiologic study of the medical cases in Bacau county, in 2000-2005 period,compared to former periods of time and to other Moldavian territories (Romania).On a decreased incidence background in the Romanian Eastern part of the territory,Bacau county maintains an incidence level of 2.0-5.3‰, with a slightly increased(and sometimes constant) tendency in Moldavia. The total of 161 cases registered in Bacau County, in 2000–2005 period, represents 19.1% of the cases in Moldavia.With descriptive aspects regularly met in cases of methemoglobinemy regarding gender, age, child’s alimentation, over half of them were produced because of exposure to nitrates quantity in water over 101 mg/dm determined by inadequate hygienic conditions of the fountains. The territorial distribution of the cases outlines the risk areas of the county, indicating, at the same time, the measures of the primary prophylaxis that must be taken. The actual documentation of the prevention strategy is still in deficit (the relation between the location of the fountains and the local relief, the hydrogeologic conditions, the actual geomorphologic processes, the spatial dwelling structure and the land use being completely ignored). The remedy, with a long term profit, consists of interdisciplinary actions, implying the fundamental and applied geographical research.
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Mihaela Popescu, Marieta Vasilov, Irina Ungureanu
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