[THE STRUCTURE AND RISK OF CHRONIC MORBIDITY IN SOME VILLAGES OF THE UPPER IMERETI REGION OF WEST GEORGIA AND THEIR MOLECULAR AND CYTOGENETIC MARKERS].

The purpose of our study was to identify the nature of the cause-effect relationship between the risks of developing of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Cardio-vascular Disease (CVD) in patients residing in the villages of Chiatura district, characterized by varying degrees of environmental stress. The residents (n=400) of the Chiatura district living in the villages, Khreiti, Perevisa and Rgani were examined. The villages are characterized by different degrees of ecological tension (the villages differ both in their remoteness from sources of environmental pollution - manganese mining quarries and the scale of its extraction, which allows them to rank according to the degree of environmental tension: Khreiti - low, Perevis - medium, Rgani - high).