Trends in cardiovascular diseases in Bosnia and Herzegovina and perspectives with heartscore programme.

Cardiovascular diseases are still the major cause of death, morbidity, mortality and loss of quality of life in European countries and worldwide. In Bosnia and Herzegovina we have burden of cardiovascular diseases with higher rate of morbidity and mortality than in the countries of EU zone or broader Europe. The cause of mortality is in close relation to multiple risk factors but also with specific conditions in our country; post war situation, transition and overall economic position.

[Trends of cardiovascular diseases in B&H and Europe].

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in developed countries and in most developing countries. They represent an important cause of loss of working ability, invalidity, hospitalization and increase of health care costs. Annually, about 20 million people dies from CVDs, and projections says that by the year 2020 25 million people will be casualties from it.

Left bundle branch block (LBBB) in patients with heart failure (HF) in Mostar region of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Unlabelled: WORK GOAL: to determine the influence of Left branch block Hissa (LBBB) on: (a) the degree of heart weakness according to NYHA classification; (b) structural remodelling based on echocardiographic, and (c) functional remodelling based on EFLV i FS (echo), comparing patients with heart failure (HF) and the left branch block Hissa (LBBB) on EKG with heart failure with heart failure (HF) without the left branch block Hissa (LBBB).

Methods And Work: We selected group of So hospital patients with heart weakness of NYHA class II-IV with and 50 without the left branch block Hissa on EKG (LBBB).

Results: There was a clinical and echocardiographic evaluation of all patients and we determined their correlation related to the sex, NYHA class, structural and functional remodelling of heart cavities, EFLV, FS and survival and the number of hospitalisation in the last three years.

[Trends in cardiovascular diseases in Bosnia-Herzegovina and some European countries].

In the last twenty years, the European office of WHO with its expert groups designated CVD as a problem of top priority in European health policy. The documents of WHO related to CVD, and their directives to member countries, are illustrated in this paper. The authors emphasize that according to available data, CVDs are cause of 40% of total mortality among the European population above the age of 75.

[Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in Mostar in 2003].

Unlabelled: Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), although all the technical medical developments in diagnostics and therapy is one of the biggest health problems in BH and the world. Incidence rates of SCD ranging between 0.36 to 1.