[Gender-related features of risk factors for, and age- and gender-related differences in the severity and genesis of chronic heart failure].

Aim: To analyze the gender-related features of the prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) in Azerbaijan and to estimate the detection rate and risk factors of this condition in inpatients on the basis of a retrospective follow-up study.

Materials And Methods: A total of 1824 case histories of CHF patients admitted with a CHF diagnosis to the Azerbaijan Research Institute of Cardiology in 2013 were analyzed.

Results: The prevalence of CHF is 51.

[Optimization of pharmacotherapy in patients with essential hypertension with neurohumoral modulators with consideration of data on heart rate variability].

Long-term treatment of patients with essential hypertension (EH) and autonomic dysfunction (sympathicotonia type) with lisinopril in combination with indapamide augmented activity of humoral systems and improved heart rate variability. Addition of a selective beta-blocker bisoprolol to lisinopril/indapamide combination promoted normalization of humoral activity. This gives reason to apply tiered RAAS blockade in order to ensure more effective control of activity of neurohumoral systems in patients with EH ant initial sympathicotonia.

[Endogenous sex hormone testosterone and haemostatic factors in young men after myocardial infarction].

Objectives: To compare levels of haemostatic factors and sex hormones in young men after myocardial infarction, to study relationship between sex hormones and factors of hemostasis.

Methods: We studied 32 men aged 30-50 years with diagnosis of myocardial infarction. Patients were divided into 2 groups according to age: group 1 - 11 patients aged 30-39 years, group 2 - 21 patients aged of 40-50 years.

[Antihypertensive efficacy of a low-dose combination of amlodipine and lisinopril in the treatment of arterial hypertension in postmenopausal women].

The present study had the objective to estimate the antihypertensive efficacy of a low-dose combination of amlodipine (5 mg) and lisinopril (equator, Gedeon Richter, Hungary; 10 mg) as well as its influence on the diastolic left ventricular function in the women presenting with arterial hypertension in the postmenopausal period A total of 60 postmenopausal women with grade II arterial hypertension available for the examination were allocated to two groups to be maintained on different therapeutic regimens. The study group was comprised of 40 patients treated with equator, and the control group included 20 patients receiving metoprolol and enalapril (12.5 mg and 10 mg respectively).