[Effectiveness of climatic health resort complex treatment of patients with pneumoconiosis and dust-induced bronchitis using underwater massage shower].

The article provides the results of studies of 167 cases affected with occupationally-related pneumoconiosis and dust bronchitis. 117 patients were treated with complex resort therapy including under-water massage, and 50 patients were given the same complex therapy without shower massage. The effectiveness of the therapeutic techniques were evaluated basing on both objective and subjective criteria, including supplementary laboratory and functional techniques.

[Effectiveness of sanitorium treatment of patients with chronic glomerulonephritis depending on their permanent residence].

The authors analyze the immediate and long-term results of 48-day health resort treatment at the Southern Coast of the Crimea of three groups of patients with chronic glomerulonephritis (150 patients in each) depending on the place of their permanent residency: "north", "middle" and "south" climatic zones. Treatment efficacy was higher in the group of patient inhabiting the "middle zone" (latitude 57.5 degrees-42.

[An objective assessment of the criteria of the efficacy of sanatorium treatment in patients with occupational lung diseases].

The article presents medical examination and clinical data on 117 cases of silicosis, anthracosilicosis, electric welder's pneumoconiosis and dust bronchitis. Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures were performed with due account of generally accepted resort treatment recommendations. The data obtained served as a basis for determining the role of different symptoms and results of complimentary medical, including immunologic, techniques, as well as for objective assessment of the effectiveness of resort treatment of occupational diseases.

[Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in blood in impaired tolerance to glucose and sugar diabetes].

Isoelectric focussing in borate-poliol system is employed for measuring the blood glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels at the treatment and prophylaxis institutions in Yalta. Examinations of normal subjects and patients with disordered glucose tolerance and apparent diabetes mellitus have revealed a significant elevation of HbA1c level in the patients with impaired glucose tolerance vs. normal subjects; these levels have been virtually the same in the diabetics and patients with impaired glucose tolerance.