[Internal diseases with special emphasis on endocrine disorders during war conditions].

Presented here is our own experience acquired in the course of one war-year in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovnia. Numerous factors that have altered the picture of a number of diseases, their frequency, character and intensity, and as a result, their diagnostica and therapy, have been noticed. Most frequent factors are the following: poorer personal and general states of hygiene, lower standard of living with general lack of food of all kinds, physical strains, exposure to psychotraumas, temperature and climatic changes, life in collective centres and siege, constant migrations of the population, captivity molesting and stay in prisoners camps.