[Identification of risk factors for respiratory diseases in adolescents from an industrial city].

The prevalence of respiratory disease and the spread of risk factors were studied in adolescents living in Saratov. Respiratory diseases held the lead among other classes of diseases in young people; these diseases were more prevalent in adolescents than in children and adults. Examination of their outpatient cards revealed defects in the management of pulmonological patients. Screening could identify the most important risk factors of respiratory diseases (such as poor housing and living conditions, smoking, and recurrent acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI)) and make up three groups of patients: 1) those at risk for respiratory diseases and frequently ARVI; 2) those with acute respiratory diseases; and 3) those with chronic respiratory diseases.