[The cardiovascular program in Slovakia 1978-1989].

A representative samples of 484 185 subjects 30-59 years were examined within the Cardiovascular Program of the Slovak Republic in the years 1978-1989. The results of the study concerning the occurrence and trends of selected cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors are presented in the paper. Within the given age range 20% of the population were found to suffer from one or more cardiovascular diseases.

[A rational diagnostic program for hypertension in children].

Early screening of subjects liable to develop cardiovascular diseases is one of the main tasks of preventive cardiology of child age. The authors present a rational programme for the screening and diagnostic of hypertension in children, its aim being to differentiate primary and the most frequent secondary forms of hypertension; this will create prerequisites for its adequate treatment (non-pharmacological and pharmacological) as well as for dispensarization. Review.

[Reliability of data on the major causes of death].

The authors discuss problems of the correct assessment of the diagnosis of the main cause of death in the appropriate form, based on results of 228 doctors of different specialities. They assessed the agreement between the diagnosis of the main cause of death made by doctors of different specialities and the pathologist and whether the entry was correct from the formal aspect. Of all 2185 diagnoses 52.

Incidence of Coxsackie virus infection in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

A total of 127 patients, divided into two groups, were examined; one was made up by patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (D-CMP) (n: 32), the other one by patients with myocarditis and pericarditis ("other cardiopathies") (n: 95). A control group of healthy subjects (n: 278) consisted of blood donors. Infection with Coxsackie viruses (B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, A7, A9) was followed up serologically using virus-neutralizing antibodies and/or IgM class virus-specific antibodies.