Double-blind, randomized study of the anti-anginal and anti-ischaemic efficacy of fendiline and diltiazem in patients with coronary heart disease.

In a 6-week, randomized, double-blind trial, the drug effects of the calcium antagonists, fendiline (75 mg twice daily) and diltiazem (90 mg twice daily), as measured by subjective and objective parameters of coronary heart disease, were studied in 79 patients with stable angina pectoris. The statistical analysis included the data of 71 patients. The results of exercise-ECG tests showed that both medications were effective anti-ischaemic agents.

[Psychological test procedures for the elderly].

This paper presents our standardized psychometric inventory for the psychological investigation in the elderly patients: exploration, standard intelligence test, standard concentration-test, investigations into questionnaires of neurosis, screening-investigations of organic brain damage. The incorporation of information about the environment and its various effects in the exploration indicates the necessity for paying attention to the individual person-environment-relationship in psycho-diagnostic considerations. The necessity of psychometric methods in the diagnostic and therapeutic intervention in the elderly patients were discussed.

[The problem of leisure in old age (author's transl)].

In his leisure time man is ridden from social requirements. The leisure time has in the single periods of life different problems and figurations. It is a part of life-span and is formed by the individuality and by the society.