[Radiation loading, radiation-induced diseases and suicide values in a region adjacent to a nuclear testing ground]

Radiation effects on the population health at a territory adjacent to the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing grounds were studied. Immunosuppression and suppression of nonspecific defense factors, induced by radiation from the testing grounds, determine the extension of physiological lability range, accelerate the natural involution processes, and create psychoemotional stress. The totality of radiation-induced general physiological effects with pronounced dose dependence of their incidence and intensity represents a co-factor of suicide.