Diseases and Malignant Neoplasms of Central Human Nervous System in Cyprus and the Effect of Predisposing Factors of Tobacco and Air Pollution

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this work is to study the diseases of the human nervous system in Cyprus and their relationship to smoking and air pollution. Methods: The statistical methods were used to derive the results of this work are Student t-test in order to check the statistical significance of the diseases of nervous system in relation to gender, One-Way ANOVA test in order to check the statistical significance of diseases of human nervous system in relation to age and the Pearson correlation coefficient for the relationship between the diseases of both predisposing factors of smoking and air pollution. Results: The results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in the number of diseases of human nervous system in relation to gender, there is a statistically significant relationship between diseases of human nervous system and age, and in particular they occur mainly at ages 65 and over. Finally, there is a statistically significant relationship between the numbers of incidents of the central nervous system diseases with air pollution and there is no statistically significant relationship with smoking. Conclusions: This study has shown that diseases of the human nervous system differ in the incidence in terms of age while air pollution is a significant predisposition. Moreover, from all diseases of the central nervous system, malignant neoplasm (cancer) of the brain holds the first place in deaths of both men and women.