[An analysis of the prevalence of chronic noninfectious diseases among the workers of industrial enterprises]. / Analiz rasprostranennosti khronicheskikh neinfektsionnykh zabolevanii sredi rabotnikov promyshlennykh predpriiatii.

The authors carried out a prophylactic examination of 1274 workers of industrial enterprises by skilled specialists. It was established that 69.2% of the examined could not name any risk factor of chronic non-infectious diseases, 53% required medical treatment. The diagnosis made by shop physicians did not coincide with the diagnosis made during the prophylactic examination in 33% of patients. It is necessary to increase the level of hygienic knowledge of workers as well as the quality of shop physicians.

[Use of the hypotensive drug guanfacine in the treatment of patients with hypertension]. / Primenenie guanfatsina - gipotenzivnogo preparata dlia lecheniia bol'nykh gipertonicheskoi bolezn'iu.

The hypotensive effect of guanfacin was evaluated in 39 essentially hypertensive patients aged 18 to 64 years and treated for 2 months. Their central, and peripheral hemodynamics, intracardiac kinetics and some humoral factors responsible for vascular tonicity control were also examined. The drug can be effective in patients with second- and third-stage essential hypertension, with a good hypotensive effect being obvious within 3-5 days of treatment (3 mg daily was the highest dose). In the course of treatment, general left-ventricular pump function returned to normal in 20 patients exhibiting a good hypotensive effect. Within 2 months of treatment, originally high plasma renin activity returned to normal, and the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme declined.