[Assessment of diagnostic scales in cardiovascular patients being at home social service from the position of geriatric syndromes].

The obtained data, from a position of geriatric syndromes, testify to need of including of simple estimated scales of a self-rating of health and cognitive disorders in the program of inspection of the elderly patients being on home social service. The special attention in group of elderly patients with arterial hypertension should be paid to widowers who have a low self-rating of health.

[Orthostatic reactions in prognosis of the risks of arterial hypertension as a component of metabolic syndrome].

It was shown that parameters of metabolic syndrome as predictors of lethal vascular outcomes of arterial hypertension (AH) in Belarus are significantly different fiom those proposed in WHO recommendations (1999). The glucose level of informative value in WHO recommendations is 6.1 mmol/l versus 5.6 mmol/l in Belarus, total cholesterol 5.0 and 5.9 mmol/l respectively. A more detailed verification of the value of both parameters is needed for the patients in Belarus and Russia depending on age and sex using non-linear models. We used a comprehensive approach to prognosis of the risk of vascular lethal outcomes of AH as a component of metabolic syndrome with the evaluation of results of clinical and laboratory examination as well as orthostatic reactions in patients of different age groups. Construction of the prognostic algorithm "Classification tree" taking account of orthostatic reactions enhances the correctness of lethal outcome prognosis up to 81.8%. The study revealed the prognostic value of systolic and diastolic arterial pressure in the supine position (15 min of active aortostatic sample) for prognostication of vascular lethal outcomes. Further studies are needed on the role of orthostatic reactions in AH patients of old age together with clinical and laboratory parameters in the prognostication of outcomes of various cardiovascular diseases.