[Physiological and hygienic problems of students' health]

Diseases found in students of higher educational institutions of Leningrad are consequence of the functional and organic disturbances, that appeared in preschool and school periods of life, and they also are developed during the period of studying at higher educational institutions under exposure to unfavourable factors--climatic-ecological ones and factors specific for the Institutes (high level of psychoemotional stress, disturbances of the hygienic standard for working, rest, nutrition etc.). While studying at the higher educational institution changes occur in the functional status of the cardio-vascular system, vegetative influences on it, and also of the system of external breathing.