Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: The extreme climatic and geographical northern conditions cause a human northern stress (“the polar tension syndrome”). The main components of this syndrome are an oxidative stress, failure of detoxication processes and barrier organs, disorders of the northern metabolism, the northern tissue hypoxia, immune insufficiency, blood hypercoagulation, polyendocrine disorders, regenerative and plastic failure, electromagnetic homeostasis disorders, functional dissymmetry of interhemispheric interrelations, desynchronosis, psychoemotional tension, meteopathia. It has been shown that chronic stress caused organism reserve exhaustion leading to development of some dysaptative disorders and pathological states.
Source: Экология человека
DOI: 10.17816/humeco17512
Authors: V I Hasnulin, P V Hasnulin
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4292805734