Publications by authors named "A I Britov"
Aim: To develop integral assessment of the health status based on the examination of representative samples from different regions of Russia (Veliky Novgorod, Nizhni-Novgorod, Vologda, Omsk and Nalchik) with the use of special questionnaires and simple anthropometric and functional methods in the framework of a prospective 3-year population study of organized groups.
Methods: The above questionnaires allowed to elucidate the socio-economic status of the patients, their somatic and psychological conditions (lifestyle index or psychological protection mechanisms (PPM), social adaptation, sanogenic reflexia; also used were Eysenck's psychotism scale, hospital anxiety and depression scale, the perceived stress scale (PSS), and moral potential of personality development scale.
Results: It was shown that the profile of psychological protection mechanisms is dominated by primitive reactions, such as projection, protection, and negation.
The aim of this work was to study morpho-functional myocardial characteristics in patients with masked arterial hypertension (AH) and white coat hypertension (WCH) given antihypertensive therapy (AHT) and without it. This cross-sectional cohort study included employees of a large industrial enterprise who annually underwent routine medical examination supplemented by 24 hr AP monitoring and echocardiography carried out at specified time of the working day. The participants of the study were divided into 6 groups based on the relationship between clinical AP and mean AP during work.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To study effects of uric acid disbolism in combination with other metabolic disturbances on prevalence and clinical symptoms of arterial hypertension; contribution of uric acid nephropathy to its development.
Material And Methods: A cohort of 243 representatives from a general population (107 males, 136 females, age 19-59 years) was studied in 1986 and 15 years later. At the beginning and end of the trial the participants were examined for arterial hypertension, microalbuminuria, uric acid nephropathy, blood biochemical tests were made.