[Andrological status of adolescents and its connection to anthropometric and hormonal descriptions in the students of technical college group].

The purpose of this investigation was to study the interrelation of andrological status with anthropometric and hormonal descriptions for age-specific features discovery of male sexual system pathological states at technical college students. 147 adolescents aged 15-17 years old were examined. Only 41 of them were found to have no abnormalities in their genital system development; in 35 adolescents sexual development was delayed; and 97 adolescents were found to have various andrological diseases (varicocele, phimosis, gynecomastia, testicular asymmetry, etc.

[Association of erectile dysfunction with hypogonadism and metabolic syndrome among men of various age groups].

The integrated study included 184 men aged from 22 to 60 years who were formed into two groups, of the first and second period of middle age. The direct relation of both erectile dysfunction frequency and expressiveness from age was developed. The same dependence was found for hypogonadism clinical features, metabolic syndrome and its components, but inverse relation was detected between age and testosterone content in blood.

[The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in an organized population].

Triple screening of industrial employees (city of Mirny, West Yakutia) was carried out in 1991-2007 in conformity with the WHO/CINDI protocol designed to elucidate risk factors of chronic non-infectious diseases. The study included 2221 subjects. Metabolic syndrome (MS) was diagnosed based on criteria of NCEP-ATP III Program modified in 2005.

[The role of prevention in decreasing endocrine pathology].

Time course of changes in the incidence of thyroid diseases and their association with other noncontagious chronic diseases (NCCD) have been evaluated among therapeutic patients hospitalized at Research Center for Clinical and Experimental Medicine of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in 1983-1995. The incidence of thyroid diseases was low in 1983, when prevention of iodine-deficiency diseases was a state program. In 1989, when iodine deficiency prevention was reduced, the incidence of cases with enlarged gland and its dysfunction has drastically increased.