Reproductive health of residents of the highlands of the Tien Shan, Pamir and Alai in conditions of social pressure

Abstract

For centuries, ethnic Kyrgyz women living in the Pamirs on the territory of Afghanistan have been constantly exposed to a complex of problems of the negative influence of high altitude factors, low social-economic standards of living, which indirectly affect the work of the functional system “mother - placenta - foetus". Considering the above facts, this work is aimed at identifying the characteristics and nature of reproductive behaviour in 149 women of high altitude Pamir and Alai, foothills of the Tien Shan pregnant women with tuberculosis, and somatically healthy residents of the low mountains of Bishkek (760 m above sea level ) within the age limits of 18 - 45 years. The obtained data were processed according to generally accepted methods of variation statistics and the calculation of Student criterion, with the identification of significant differences in the groups.