PROCESSING METHODS AND RESULTS OF 3-YEAR MONITORING DATA ON PERIPHERAL-BLOOD OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN THE SLAVGOROD DISTRICT

The results of three-year peripheral blood monitoring of schoolchildre n living in the Slavgorod Region of the Mogilev Region exposed to radi ation in the Chernobyl accident are presented. The findings were summa rized by using the methods elaborated by the authors for biological da ta processing, based on a combination of the conventional mathematical statistical methods and the fuzzy sets theory. The latter reveals the determinants of the steady tendency of brood quality deterioration in children and teenagers living in the rural areas of the Slavgorod Dis trict. The undesirable tendencies were found to be associated with the negative dynamics of some red blood parameters, including ones rarely examined in peripheral blood analysis, such as mean red blood cell vo lumes. This made it possible to improve a screening technique and to o btain results which are of the greatest interest to hematologists who work with children residing in contaminated areas.