[Prevalence of large-intestinal diseases in Azerbaijan].
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15,000 adults in Azerbaijan have been surveyed. The programme of the survey included interviews with specially designed questionnaires consisting of questions related to working and living conditions, nutritional habits, X-ray and endoscopic examinations of the colon have been conducted. Referrals to polyclinics for colon diseases accounted for 6.0 per 100 inhabitants and after active detection among men--41.5 and among women--45.6 per 100 persons examined. The leading role in the incidence of chronic diseases of colon is played by hemorrhoid (31.0%), chronic colitis (33.6%), colon dyskinesia (13.5%). It has been found that the most significant predisposing causes of colon diseases were: bacillary dysentery, different types of neuroses, milk indigestion, gynaecological and prostatic diseases, and obesity.