[Ischemic heart disease in people of different somatotypes]. / Ishemicheskaia bolezn' serdtsa u lits raznykh somaticheskikh tipov.

Standard methods were used to study interrelations between the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD), its risk factors (RF), the course and the somatotype of the test subjects. The study was based on the data obtained during cardiological examination in Minsk of a representative sample of the male population (n = 3761) aged 40 to 59 years. It has been established that the prevalence of CHD, arterial hypertension (AH) and hypercholesterolemia increases consistently on passing over from asthenia to hypersthenia. Proceeding from the data of the exercise tests and analysis of the frequency of combinations of certain forms of CHD in persons belonging to different somatotypes a conclusion has been drawn that CHD runs a graver course in hypersthenic patients. It has also been shown by means of multidimensional analysis that just like RF such as AH, hypercholesterolemia and tobacco smoking, the hypersthenic build up makes a separate and significant contribution to the onset of CHD.

[Ischemic heart disease and the biological age of men over 40]. / Ishemicheskaia bolezn' serdtsa i biologicheskii vozrast u muzhchin starshe 40 let.

A population of 40- to 64-year-old males (normal subjects and coronary patients) were examined in order to estimate their biological age on the basis of cardiovascular and respiratory functional parameters and multiple regression analysis dynamometry in relation to hormonal status; it may be considered as a factor, contributing to cardiovascular pathology.

[Constitutional dependence of the lipid spectrum of the blood serum]. / Konstitutaional'naia zavisimost' lidinogo spektra syvorotki krovi.

An epidemiologic study (3270 males, aged 40 to 59 years) demonstrated a relationship between blood lipid spectrum, the prevalence of lipid coronary risk factors and the constitutional type. The demonstrated correlations may be useful in developing recommendations for individual preventive treatment against coronary disease.

[Role of heredity in the prevalence of ischemic heart disease and its risk factors]. / Rol' nasledstvennosti v rasprostranennosti ishemicheskoi bolezni serdtsa i ee faktorov riska.

The relationship of heredity with CHD prevalence and the main risk factors (RF) was analyzed on the basis of the results of a primary cardiological screening of the male population aged 40 to 59 in Minsk and Kaunas (10012 persons). The results of the analysis were in favor of hereditary predisposition to CHD. The prevalence of CHD and the main RF in probands with aggravated heredity was much higher than that in probands with favorable heredity. CHD prevalence in the compared groups was 12.4 and 10.7%; SK 3.9 and 0.2%; cerebral stroke 1.6 and 0.6%, respectively. Statistically significant changes were also revealed in RF frequency: AH--32.6 and 27.1%; HCS--27.7 and 24.1%; EBM--16.6 and 13.8%; smoking--43.6 and 47.0%. Over 1/3 of all types of CHD and AH were found in the persons with hereditary predisposition to CHD on the maternal side with a tendency to CS.

[Self-control of blood pressure for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of ambulatory treatment of arterial hypertension]. / Samokontrol' arterial'nogo davleniia s tsel'iu povysheniia éffektivnosti ambulatornogo lecheniia arterial'noi gipertenzii.

A method of blood pressure self-control was used in a random sample of males aged 40-59, with persistently increased BP (greater than or equal to 160/95 mmHg at two visits), as identified by an epidemiologic study. Daily BP self-control exercised for 2-5 weeks as supplementary to conventional hypotensive treatment (hypothiazide and clophelin) contributed to the recovery of normal BP values within 4.57 +/- 0.69 days, on the average. After one year of such practice, the efficiency of treatment reached 46.8%, as compared to the 20% in the control group, while the disability rate decreased. Indications have been developed for out-patient application of the self-control techniques.

[Multifactorial prophylaxis of ischemic heart disease (a cooperative study)]. / Mnogofaktornaia profilaktika ishemicheskoi bolezni serdtsa (kooperativnoe issledovanie).

The examination of 40-59 year-old males in Moscow, Kaunas, Minsk, Tashkent, Frunze in the framework of a cooperative study on multifactorial prophylaxis of coronary heart disease has shown that the disease and its risk factors such as arterial hypertension, smoking, hypercholesterolemia, excessive body weight and low physical activity are wide-spread among the male population of all the five cities, 75-83% of all the subjects examined thus being in need of preventive measures. Preventive measures against risk factors carried out in Moscow, Kaunas and Minsk already in the first 2 years have shown the possibility of reducing the incidence of arterial hypertension in the population (in Moscow by 7.8%, in Kaunas by 6.1%, in Minsk by 9.8%), smoking (in Moscow by 7.9%, in Kaunas by 8.1%, in Minsk by 14.8%), hypercholesterolemia (in Moscow by 4%, in Kaunas by 4.9%, in Minsk by 8.4%).