[Blood pressure dynamics and prognostication of hypertension: 20-year follow-up of children's cohort].

Aim: To track dynamics of blood pressure (BP) from childhood to young maturity and to determine predictors of hypertension.

Methods: School children (n=1082) were examined in a framework of an international program on juvenile hypertension in 1976-1977. Samples of this initial cohort were reexamined in 1988 (n=444) and 1997 (n=505).

[Implementation of an integrated program of prevention of chronic nonspecific diseases in the Kaĭshiador region of the Lithuanian SSR].

An integrated prevention programme of chronic noncommunicable diseases (CND) was started by the Lithuanian SSR in 1983. Improvement of population's health status due to primary preventive activities aimed at prevention of risk factors' development and correction was defined as the basic long-term goal of the programme. Organizational aspects of the integrated programme carried out in the Kaishyador Region of the Lithuanian SSR were described.

[Predicting the dynamics of elevated arterial pressure in 12--13-year-old children of Kaunas and Berlin].

The increased arterial blood pressure (BP) variation between 12-13 and 15-16 years of age was examined in 119 schoolchildren of Kaunas and 169 schoolchildren of Berlin. The 90th percentile for systolic and/or diastolic BP was used as a criterion of increased arterial BP. The data were treated by multivariate logistical regression analysis.