[A health education program for the prevention of heart diseases carried out in a population in Calabria].

Background: To evaluate the behaviour and knowledge of students on cardiovascular risk factors and to programme a campaign for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.

Methods: All students attending the last year of the secondary school of this province answered a questionnaire. An educational campaign followed the analysis of the questionnaire.

[Ventricular arrhythmias in the acute phase of myocardial infarct and in the postinfarct. A 1-year follow-up].

A total of 90 AMI patients (80 male, 10 female; mean age: 62 years, range: 36-70 yrs) who were admitted to the coronary care unit within six hours of the onset of symptoms were evaluated for the following: the incidence and variability of complex ventricular ectopic beats (classes Lown III-V) in the acute, subacute and chronic phases of myocardial infarction. The diagnostic utility of Holter monitoring and treadmill exercise testing was compared so as to reveal complex ventricular ectopic beats. The relation between complex ventricular ectopic beats and left ventricular dysfunction was determined using the echocardiographic technique (ejection fraction, fractional shortening).