[Attitude to health matters among middle-aged men in a program to prevent ischemic heart disease]. / Otnoshenie k voprosam zdorov'ia u muzhchin srednego vozrasta v programme po profilaktike ishemicheskoi bolezni serdtsa.

The authors studied the health-related attitudes (to prophylaxis, one's own health, physicians, bad habits) in men aged 40-59 years invited to participate in the programme of the multifactorial prophylaxis of myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke among the population. A total of 6803 men filled in a questionnaire consisting of 47 points mailed to them together with an invitation to take part in a screening examination. The results obtained showed that the elderly men responded favourably to the conduction of preventive procedures and to advice to change the smoking habits but less favourably toward recommendations to increase physical activity and change the diet.

[Various characteristics of persons with behavior-related risk of ischemic heart disease]. / Nekotorye osobennosti lits s povedencheskim riskom ishemicheskoi bolezni serdtsa.

In the framework of the programme on the multi-factorial prophylaxis of myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke in males aged 40-59 years, the authors studied the relationship between type A behaviour pattern as a risk factor for coronary heart disease and somatic and history indices. A study of 5698 men showed that group A was characterized by a greater percentage of subjects with elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels and with hypercoagulatory changes in the hemostatic system. Group A subjects more frequently complained of chest pain and had a larger proportion of relatives with cardiovascular disease.

[Results of the long-term comprehensive rehabilitation of patients who have had a myocardial infarct]. / O rezul'taty dolgosrochnoi kompleksnoi reabilitatsii bol'nykh, perenesshikh infarkt miokarda.

Comprehensive stage-by-stage rehabilitation according to the WHO program was conducted in 73 males after myocardial infarction. The indices of physical working capacity and psychic readaptation were better in them than in the control group, while the need in in-patient treatment and the incidence of repeated infarction were less.

[Use of a biographical questionnaire for studying the social and psychological characteristics of myocardial infarct patients]. / Primenenie biograficheskogo voprosnika dlia issledovaniia sotsial'nykh i psikhologicheskikh osobennostei bol'nykh infarktom miokarda.

An original formalized and standardized biographical questionnaire revealed higher activity and emotional tension in persons with myocardial infarction in the subacute period than in patients of a control group. A formalized and standardized biographical questionnaire is a reliable method for investigating the social and psychological peculiarities in applying measures of rehabilitation and primary and secondary prophylaxis in patients suffering from ischemic heart disease.