Extreme living conditions in childhood and illness in old age

Abstract

At present, in St. Petersburg there are registered a significant number of elderly and senile people who survived extreme conditions of existence in the blockaded Leningrad in childhood. The health status of these people differs for the worse from the health status of their peers. It can be assumed that these differences are predetermined by the prolonged starvation of children and adolescents in Leningrad besieged by the Nazis; regular stress loads that children experienced during bombing and artillery shelling of their homes, awareness of the death of their relatives, friends and relatives. The long term consequences of extreme living conditions in childhood were manifested by cardiovascular diseases, severe obesity, frequent development of diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension, cholelithiasis, manifestations of chronic atrophic gastritis, chronic renal failure.