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Conducting Maximal and Submaximal Endurance Exercise Testing to Measure Physiological and Biological Responses to Acute Exercise in Humans
Published on: October 17, 2018
Influence of a physical exertion on the workers' health state
1Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical University of Gdańsk, ul. Powstania Styczniowego 9B, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland. higiena@amg.gda.pl
Purpose:
The health state of the workers employed at hard and very hard workplaces (on the ground of an energy expenditure measurement) has been presented in this report.
Material And Methods:
The morbidity of these workers was compared with the morbidity rates of two groups: the persons employed at a factory management and the workers performing light and moderate physical work. The number data has been standardized in order to eliminate the influence of an age over the morbidity rate values.
Results:
A number of the considerably differences in frequency of the occurrence of each disease among the examined employees groups has been found.
Conclusion:
The diseases of the peripheral nervous system and locomotive organs as well as the disturbances of the cerebral circulatory were of more frequent occurrence among the persons performing hard and very hard work.
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