LOWER LIMBS VARICOSITY AND OSTEOARTHRITIS
EPIDEMIOLOGY IN KARELIAN REPUBLIC

Shcheglov Ernest Anatol'evich, Candidate of medical sciences, cardiovascular surgeon, Emergency Hospital (Karelian republic, Petrozavodsk, 40 Kirova str.), esheglov@onego.ru

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The author analysed lower limbs varicosity and osteoarthritis morbidity on the basis of the official statistics. To evaluate the frequence of the combined pathology the researcher conducted screening questioning of municipal outpatient clinic patients. For the recent years in Karelian republic there is recorded an increase of the number of registered patients and of general varicosity morbidity, and even primary morbidity of osteoarthritis. According to screening questioning there is a direct interconnection between the presence of complaints of lower limbs varix dilatation and the pains and discomfort in knee joints. Patients with varix dilatation in 75,8 % of cases suffers from pains in knee joints. All patients with complaints of varix dila-tation for over 8 years suffer from pains and discofort in knee joints. 87,5 % of ques-tioned patients noted the occurrence of the joint syndrome after 3–5 years since the first signs of varix dilatation. In Karelian republic there is an increase of lower limbs varicosity and osteoarthritis morbidity. There is a direct interconnection between between the complaints of lower limbs varix dilatation and the pains and discomfort in knee joints. Long term existence of varix dilatation is one of the predisposing factors of knee joint syndrome development.

varicosity, osteoarthritis, knee joint.

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