Meeting patient's expectations in primary care consultations in Lithuania.

Objective: Patient satisfaction with health care services is considered an important factor of health care. Although research on patient satisfaction has become standard in Western Europe, in countries such as Lithuania the concept of patient satisfaction is still a relatively new one. This study aimed to investigate how the meeting of patients' expectations is related to increased satisfaction with medical consultation.

Mortality and morbidity indicators of acute myocardial infarction in participants and non-participants in population studies conducted in Moscow and Kaunas.

The results of a prospective study of participants and non-participants in population surveys conducted in Moscow and Kaunas are presented. The average follow-up period was 5.5 years.

State of health of "non-respondents" in population studies of ischaemic heart disease in Moscow and Kaunas.

The authors analyse the results of medical examination of males aged 40-59 years in Moscow and Kaunas, divided into "respondents" and "non-respondents" in a population study of ischaemic heart disease. Among non-respondents, a higher incidence was found of such risk factors of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) as arterial hypertension, smoking, low physical activity and personality type A. On the other hand, hypercholesterolaemia was more frequent among respondents.

Relationship between risk factors and ischaemic heart disease mortality in a representative sample of men aged 45-59 years in Kaunas.

The results of a 7-year prospective follow-up of a representative sample of men aged 45-49 years living in Kaunas, who were initially examined within the framework of the Kaunas-Rotterdam Intervention Study, are presented. The relationship was investigated between systolic and diastolic hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, smoking impaired glucose tolerance on the one hand, and mortality (total and from ischaemic heart disease) on the other hand. The main cause of death in the studied series were cardiovascular diseases (38.