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IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND SOMATIC DISEASES IN LITHUANIA

IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND SOMATIC DISEASES IN LITHUANIA. Dr.Habil. Saulius Šliaupa 1 , Prof. Gediminas Žukauskas 2 Msc. Larisa Korabliova 3 Msc. Žydrūnas Dėnas 4 Prof. Algimantas Zakarevičius 5 Ph.D. Marija Jakubė nienė 2 , Ph.D. Ona Davidonienė 6.

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IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND SOMATIC DISEASES IN LITHUANIA

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  1. IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND SOMATIC DISEASES IN LITHUANIA Dr.Habil. Saulius Šliaupa1, Prof. Gediminas Žukauskas2 Msc. Larisa Korabliova3 Msc. Žydrūnas Dėnas4 Prof. Algimantas Zakarevičius5 Ph.D. Marija Jakubėnienė2, Ph.D. Ona Davidonienė6 1Institute of Geology and Geography 2Institute of Forensic Medicine 3Lithuanian Geological Survey 4Vilnius University 5Vilnius Technical University 6State Mental Health Centre

  2. Study target The presented study is aimed at the recognition of relationships of different human health disorders to natural environmental factors in Lithuania (in a country scale)

  3. Settlment density Settlment density 2 km grid 5 km grid Relief Geology

  4. GEOFACTORS HUMAN HEALTH • gravity & magnetic fields • soil chemistry • sub-soil lithology • landscape features • drinking water chemistry • schizophrenia, alcoholic psychosis, suicides, homicides • (ii) tuberculosis, cancer, infections, cardiac-vascular, respiratory diseases Data averaged to 45 REGIONS OF LITHUANIA

  5. Year 1999

  6. Cardiac-vascular disease rate, 1999-2003 45 regions of Lithuania

  7. anomaly NF Neotectonic faults Hydrochemical anomalies Forest Rivers Wetlands Sub-soil lithologies Lanscape features

  8. Soil chemistry samples Phosphorus ppm Gravity field relief

  9. Drinking water Chemistry (more than 10,000 wells)

  10. Scaled gravity field Gravity field Scaling of different format data to administrative regions of Lithuania using GIS Density of neotectonic faults Neotectonic faults km/1 km2

  11. 72=9(-0.39); 11(-0.34); 13(-0.43). 73=31(-0.35). 74=17(0.31); 20(0.31). 75=31(-0.39). 76=29(0.32); 37(0.32); 63(-0.32). 77=28(0.36); 29(0.34); 30(0.36); 32(0.32); 37(0.35); 63(-0.34). 78=29(0.37); 37(0.37); 63(-0.37). 79=9(0.35); 11(0.33); 16(-0.33); 18(-0.33); 36(-0.32); 38(0.28); 41(0.34). 80=9(0.43); 11(0.39); 26(-0.33); 39(0.37); 40(0.36); 41(0.44); 42(0.35); 61(-0.33); 64(-0.32). 81=9(0.42); 11(0.39); 16(-0.30); 18(-0.30); 36(-0.33); 38(0.41); 39(0.34); 41(0.41); 42(0.33); 64(-0.31). Statistics example R> .30 Faktoriai

  12. Defined statistical correlations

  13. nexus

  14. CORRELATION CHART OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

  15. RESULTS differentiation of the relief (+0.44), essentially in the areas that show less dense drainage network (correlation is -0.32). Rb and Sr have a negative loading (-0.33) Drinking water salinity and SO4(-0,38). Relief vs. respiratory RESPIRATORY Soil pH: low values show positive impact on the healt Statistically woods increase the risk (+0.32) water containing increased amount of Ca and HCO3 statistically has the remedying effect (-0.35) TUBERCULOSIS Tuberculosis vs soil pH

  16. RESULTS gravity and magnetic field +0.31 -0.33 High pH of soil – higher disease rate Infections vs pH INFECTIONS Correlates with the magnetic field (+0.37). Low disease rate is related to higher concentrations of Na and K(-0,42), higher pH, lower amount of Fe in the drinking water. CARDIAC-VASCULAR vs Na+K CARDIAC-VASCULAR

  17. RESULTS Direct correlation with the magnetic field (+0.30), P, Pb, and Sn correlate reversely (-0.40, -0.38, -0.40) (sandy soil) The schizophrenia also shows some rate decrease for about 30% with increasing concentration of Li in the soil. Aeolian and glaciolacustrine sedimentation areas show the strongest reverse correlation with the schizophrenia. The direct correlation was identified for the geochemical enrichment of the pit (+0.39). Schizophrenia vs SHIZOPHRENIA Phosphorus Direct relationship to the relief height and dissection The soil enriched in Yb and Y (and some weaker indications of La, Li, Sr) has statistically lower disease risk. Water chemistry is essential that shows reverse loading (-0.40) of Mg, Ca on the alcoholic psychosis Alcoholic psychosis vs Mg water ALCOHOLIC PSYCHOSIS

  18. RESULTS Consistent correlation with the magnetic field, essentially with its variability (correlation coefficient +0.45) Some geochemical elements of the soil, i.e. Ti, Zr (+0,32), and Y, Yb, Nb (+0.22 to +0.29 Sandy lithologies (lower risk) CANCER homicide rates do not show any correlation to environmental factors, except the fault density(+0.35) that positively correlates with the homicide rate HOMICIDE vs HOMICIDE FAULT DENSITY

  19. SUICIDES Very strong geographical control, maybe it is due to strong impact of the landscape on the economic-social framework? strong correlation of the disease rate with the drinking water chemistry, in particular the remedying (in terms of statistics) effect of potassium It is known that when the potassium starvation becomes chronic in proportions, suicide is often contemplated and sometimes attempted.

  20. CONCLUSIONS The environmental variations are rather minor in Lithuania. However, even minor changes in the living environment seem to have a certain impact on the human health. We fully acknowledge that the human health depends on interaction of very different factors, and the environment is one (and maybe not the most important) of those factors. Still, the obtained consistent correlations leave no place for doubts that environmental factors should be taken into account

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