Diseases of the Digestive System and Air Pollution

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this work is to study the diseases of the human digestive 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 digestive diseases in relation to gender, One-Way ANOVA test in order to check the statistical significance of human digestive diseases 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 statistically significant difference in the number of digestive diseases in relation to gender and more specifically inguinal hernia occurs more often in men and there is also a statistically significant relationship between digestive diseases and age. Finally, there is a statistically significant relationship between the numbers of incidents of digestive diseases with air pollution and there is no statistically significant relationship with smoking. Conclusions: This work has shown that diseases of the digestive system vary with gender and age, while air pollution is an important predisposing factor. Moreover, from all digestive diseases, paralytic ileus and intestinal obstruction without hernia holds the first place in deaths in women and other diseases of digestive system in men.