The impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease mortality in the District Sumperk, Czech Republic.

Objective: The impact of obesity on cardiovascular mortality in the District Sumperk (C2) is assessed.

Methods: A case-control design was selected to study the impact of obesity on cardiovascular mortality among the population of the District Sumperk, Czech Republic. Exposure to obesity was defined as body-mass index (BMI) higher or equal 30.

[Assessment of the incidence of metabolic syndrome].

Background: Metabolic syndrome represents a disease with high prevalence and influence on the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study is to estimate frequency of metabolic syndrome in the district Sumperk, in years 1979-1981 based on the analysis of large Preventive check-ups database.

Methods And Results: Database of Preventive oncologic check-ups from Sumperk district comprising 40 099 subjects with follow up in years 1979-1981 has been used to assess the metabolic syndrome prevalence.

Lung cancer incidence in the Czech Republic: a time-trend study.

Background: Analysis of cancer incidence trends is one of the prerequisites for cancer prevention. It is possible to set up priorities and assess current development of morbidity.

Methods: All lung cancer incidences in the Moravia region of the Czech Republic (4,000,000 inhabitants) in the years 1984-1998 have been assessed concerning incidence, anatomical subsites, stage, and morphology.

[Risk factors for tumors, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in the population of the Sumperk District].

Background: Cardiovascular diseases and cancers are responsible for almost 80% of the total mortality in the Czech Republic. For their prevention, identification of risk factors becomes indispensable. Presented article analyses frequency of risk factors in the population of Sumperk district on the bases of the first and second preventive oncological check-ups.

Preventive oncologic check-ups in the District Sumperk, 1975-1986: the description of a database.

From 1975 through 1986, repeated preventive oncologic check-ups were carried out in the District Sumperk. In the course of the check-ups, 49,426 persons were examined. The examinations were aimed at surveillance of initial stadium of cancers as well as at detection of other serious chronic diseases.