[Individuality of professional adaptation in females engaged in industry].

Heavy female manual labor at a coal-cleaning plant was found to be under the influence of a complex of unfavorable factors. Nervous and emotional stress was deteriorated by the presence of conflict situations and dissatisfaction with relationships in the collective body. Three groups of patients differing in the health status and physical fitness were identified depending on the level of emotional stability. The latter determined the individual strategy of adaptation of the female circulatory system, the rate of reserves expenditure, and the level of stress.