[Bioelement status of older age residents of Magadan.]

By choosing discriminant variables as concentrations of significant chemicals, this study identified types of mature people bioelement pictures. The inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry/mass spectrometry method was used to measure Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, P and Zn concentrations in hair samples of 237 residents of Magadan aged 36-94. By cluster and discriminant analysis the concentrations of Ca, Mg, Mn and Zn were reliably (p=0,001) set as classifying parameters, which made it possible to divide the examinees into three groups based on the following types of bioelement status: regional norm (81,97% of the surveyed subjects), excess (16,87%) and hyper excess (0,84%). The status of regional norm proved to be mostly common in all the studied ages, regardless of gender. We could see the incidence of this bioelement type is growing to the extreme old age being characteristic of the changing element status as normal bioelement ageing. The status of hyper excess was only exhibited by women at their second adulthood. The status of bioelement excess is more common in women who reduce the chance of developing this condition from 33,9 to 4,8% as they move from second adulthood to senile age.