Assessment of sapropel use for pharmaceutical products according to legislation, pollution parameters, and concentration of biologically active substances.

Development trends need the necessity for wider use of the local resources and available natural materials are one of the priorities around the world. Freshwater sapropel is a common material in the water basement of the lakes, but still not sufficiently explored. The main goal of the project to start detailed and systematic research on the medical properties of sapropel to be obtained in Latvia, promote its scientifically based use in balneology, develop new medical procedures and services, and promote development of new exportable products.

Association of elevated vitamin B with oncohematological diseases in a cohort of 79,524 patients from Latvia.

Aim: Currently there are some large-scale studies of elevated total vitamin B in relation to diseases and their prognosis. Aim of this retrospective study was to determine association of increased B as an additional diagnostic marker of oncohematological diseases by a statistical analysis of clinical data of 79,524 patients.

Materials And Methods: Overall Latvian population representative data on B  testing in 79,524 patients were obtained from laboratory database.