[Arteriosclerosis in men doing physical and mental work]

In males engaged in doing physical and mental work a morphometric study with due consideration given to their condition of nurishment (in a group of practically healthy only), smoking habits and heteditary-familial history with respect to cardio-vascular diseases, was undertaken. Use was made of the autopsy materials obtaned in studying the epidemiology of atherosclerosis in some cities of the USSR. In persons doing brain work, well nourished, with long-standing smoking habits and adverse hereditary-familial history the intensity of atherosclerosis in the aorta and coronary arteries was more pronounced that in individuals doing manual work and exposed to the same risk factors. This gives reason to believe that the occupational factors does influence the development of atherosclerosis (above all in the coronary arteries) to a greater degree than the other ones, mentioned above.