Impact of plateau environment safeguarding Armed Police officers’ and soldiers’ kidney function
LIU Hui1, LI Cheng1, and GENG Ruihui2
1.Preventive Health Care Section, General Headquarters Outpatient Department Chinese People’s Armed Police Force, Beijing 100089, China; 2. Department of Medicine, The 8640 Hospital of Chinese People’s Armed Police Force, Dingzhou 073000, China
Abstract：Objective We investigated the impact of Tibet plateau envirounment on Armed Police officer’,and soldiers kidney function in order to provide fourther effective hygienic service.Methods 90 and 100 Armed Police officers and soldiers, who had come from the plain with an altitude of about 50 m and had arrived at about 4300 m and 3200 m altitude for 1 year, were recruited as our subjects. We examined their blood urea, creatinine, uric acid and urine micro-albumin 6 and 12 months after arrived in Tibet, and 6 months after departure. Data were analyzed by SPSS 18.0.Results The blood urea, creatinine, uric acid and urine micro-albumin at 6 and 12 months were all higher than those at arriving in Tibet and 6 months after departure (P<0.05). The data of staying for 12 months [urine micro-albumin in high and low altitude groups were (12.50±2.33)mg/L and(11.43±2.70)mg/L] were significantly higher than those of staying for 6 months[urine micro-albumin in high and low altitude groups were (10.66±1.95) mg/L and(9.91±2.75)mg/L] (P<0.05), but there was no statistically significant difference between 6 months after departure and at arriving in Tibet. At staying for 6 and 12 months, the blood urea, creatinine, uric acid and urine micro-albumin in the two groups had significant difference(P<0.05). The indexes in higer altitude groups were remarkably higher than those in lower altitude groups (P<0.05), meanwhile, no significant differences were found between at arriving in Tibet and 6 months after departure.Conclusions With the elevation of altitude, the levels of Armed Police soldiers’ blood urea, creatinine, uric acid and urine micro-albumin were raising. The plateau had deeply impact on kidney function of Armed Police Soldiers in the plateau area and the function of the soldiers could improved step by step after breaking away from the surroundings.
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