Бюллетень сибирской медицины (Apr 2011)

The role of some risk factors in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in big industrial city in Western Siberia

  • A. V. Lebedev,
  • B. M. Doronin,
  • I. A. Gribacheva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20538/1682-0363-2011-2-134-141
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 134 – 141

Abstract

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On examination of 78 people with accurate amyotrophic lateral sclerosis the role of some risk factors in the development and the character of the flow of the disease was analyzed. The received findings don't allow excluding the participation of the viruses of herpes and cytomegalovirus in the emergence and development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The most important is the observance of a hypocaloric diet, the prevalence of eating meat products, the availability of guidelines for the transfer of poliomyelitis, rheumatism, herpes infection, acute psycho-emotional stress for the 6 months before disease onset and some others.

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