Objective: Evaluation of morphological and functional myocardial abnormalities in the Chornobyl NPP (ChNPP)accident clean-up workers (ACUW) of the «iodine» period exposed to ionizing radiation at a young age and havinggot the type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Materials And Methods: The ChNPP ACUW of «iodine» period (n=111) exposed to ionizing radiation (IR) at a young age(18-35 years) were involved in the study. Subjects having got the T2DM were included in study Group I (n = 66), per-sons with normal glucose challenge test were selected as a comparison Group II (n = 45).
Age and sexual indexies of densitometry at patients with acute leukemia (AL) and healthy children are presented. 31% of children with AL during the initial period of disease had manifestations of the osteopenic syndrome. At patients with AL more often than at healthy children anomalies of development of front part of skull are defined.
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