[Chronic alcoholic enteritis in the North].

Altogether 107 patients with chronic enterocolitis were examined. They were divided into 3 groups with relation to their attitude to alcohol: the 1st group-alcoholics, the 2nd risk group-hard drinking, the 3rd group-non-alcoholics. Severe disorders of the intestinal enzymatic activity (suppression of the intraduodenal amylolytic and proteolytic and intraluminal lactase activity) were revealed, the character of parietal digestion was changed. Atrophic duodenal changes among these patients were noted twice as more frequently as among the patients who did not consume alcohol or consumed it moderately. Expeditions revealed positive correlation between the morbidity and the type of living conditions in one or another climatic geographic area in the Jakut Republic.