[Long-term effect of petrochemical production on girls and young women during vocational training and work].

A complex of hygienic, clinical, statistical and experimental studies established the relationship, magnitude, nature, and mechanism of changes in the body of girls who are engaged in petrochemical industry and in contact with the occupational factors of current petrochemical production. The most significant and prognostically poor factors include disturbances in the formation and realization of reproductive function (a menstrual cycle, pregnancy course, labor, postpartum period, posterity health), which were experimentally evidenced (gonadotoxic, embryotropic, mutagenic, and teratogenic effects were found to be shown by a number of hydrocarbons in concentrations not exceeding the allowable ones).