Incidence and prevalence of childhood diabetes in Slovakia (1985-1992). Slovak Childhood Diabetes Epidemiology Study Group.

Objective: To provide reliable data on the incidence and prevalence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) in children in Slovakia.

Research Design And Methods: A total of 754 Slovak children with IDDM, aged 0-14 years, were identified during an 8-year study period. There were 369 boys and 385 girls from an average population of 1,363,499 children.

[Incidence of rheumatic fever in Slovakia during the last 20 years].

The incidence of rheumatic fever has a declining trend in Slovakia. In 1972 there were 26.7 primary attacks and 8.

[Registration of patients with chronic diseases].

The authors describe registers of chronic diseases, provisions regarding their contents and organizational aspects. They make the reader familiar with the collection, storage and evaluation of data and some problems with their safeguarding. They report their experience with recommended questionnaires and the structure of forms.

[Infant and neonatal mortality and its forecasting].

The authors draw attention to some trends in the development of important indicators of health care in the SR, i.e. infant and neonatal mortality.

[Congenital heart defects in children born 1981-1987 in the Bratislava District and surrounding countryside].

In 1981-1987 of 61,420 liveborn children in the districts Bratislava-town and Bratislava-country 480 infants with inborn heart disease were born of whom 135 died. The mean incidence of congenital heart disease is 7.81% and the mean mortality 2.

[The central register for diabetes mellitus in children in Slovakia].

The central register of diabetes mellitus in the SSR keeps records of patients from birth to the age of 14 and 18 years resp. The health institution reports patients on special forms. At the end of the first half of 1988 574 patients from the entire SSR were on record.

Pediatrical case histories analyzed by means of a computer.

The authors present their first version of the formation of anamnestic case histories (family, personal, epidemiological, and social) by means of a conversation between the physician and the computer. During the recording a set of the means of expression is used, this allows for an exhaustive compilation and recording of various types of case histories. The means of expression called variables make up the questionnaire sentence.

Incidence of congenital heart disease among children in a selected population sample.

The incidence of congenital heart disease [CHD] among infants and children has been studied since 1976. The sample represents more than one third of all infants born annually during the years under review. In 1976, 354 of all newborns had a CHD, confirmed by autopsy in 105, as compared with 285 newborns with CHD in 1977, confirmed by autopsy in 62, the incidence in 1976 and 1977 thus being 9.

[The rupture of the pleura: a serious complication of hydatid cyst of the lung in children (author's transl)].

The authors report 5 cases of rupture of hydatid cyst into the pleural cavity observed among 336 patients operated for hydatid cyst of the lung during a 13-year period. Three cases were spontaneous ruptures and two were the result of repeated pleural tappings. One case among the spontaneous ruptures was presented with a picture of acute surgical abdomen.