Morphofunctional aspects of the adaptation of foreign students to the conditions of the sharply continental climate of the Volgograd region

The problems of monitoring of morphofunctional changes in the process of human adaptation to the changed climatic and geographic conditions of living and study are considered in the article. Various mechanisms of adaptive rearrangements of the organism are described. Changes in the morphofunctional status occur when foreign students adapt to the conditions of the sharply continental climate of the Volgograd region. Those changes cause multidirectional reactions of the cardiovascular system. A satisfactory adaptation response was found in 58.8% of cases: reduction of body weight deficit, load on the myocardium, and increase in the functional capabilities of the cardiovascular system. In a risk group of students with a deficit of body weight, in 30.0% of cases, the reserve potential of the functioning of the cardiovascular system was spent. This corresponds to maladaptation reactions. It is necessary to take into account the obtained results for organizing the measures of conserve and preserve the health of foreign students coming to Russia for higher education.