[The Relationship Between Level of End-Products of Tissue Glycation and Pulse Wave Velocity in Non-diabetic Patients With Cardiovascular Disease].

Aim: of the study was to assess the relationship between advanced glycation end-products measured by skin autofluorescence (AGEs) and pulse wave velocity (PWV) in non-diabetic patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Material And Methods: Skin autofluorescence (AGE--reader, DiagnOptic) and PWV in humero-malleolar segment (PWVhm) were measured in 93 non-diabetic CVD patients (mean age 63.5 years): 28 with ischemic heart disease (IHD) and 65 without IHD from the group with moderate/high risk of development of cardiovascular complications.

Secondary acute myeloid leukemia early after therapy for Hodgkin's disease--a case report.

A case of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) after successful therapy for Hodgkin's disease (HD) is reported. The patient was diagnosed with stage IIB HD at the age of 25. She was treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy (RT), and complete remission (CR) was achieved.

Multivariate statistical assessment of the pollution sources along the stream of Kamchia River, Bulgaria.

Sixteen sampling sites along the stream of Kamchia River were considered as environmental objects in the multivariate statistical study aimed to identify and apportion patterns of sampling sites, latent factors responsible for the data structure and their relation to the emitter industrial and anthropogenic sources in the vicinity of the sampling sites. As variables 11 surface water parameters monitored for a long time period (up to 11 years) were used. Four main site patterns were revealed by cluster analysis (urban, rural, near-to dam and estuary) and for each site latent factors were identified and apportioned (among them "metallurgical", "food production", "winery", domestic wastes", "natural").

Environmetric approaches to estimate pollution impacts on a coastal area by sediment and river water studies.

This paper represents an effort to demonstrate the opportunities of some environmetric methods like regression analysis, cluster analysis and principal components analysis. Their role for data modeling is stressed and the basic theoretical principles are given. The application of the multivariate statistical methods is illustrated by two major examples: Assessment of metal pollution based on multivariate statistical modeling of "hot spot" sediments from the Black Sea; and a trend study of Kamchia River water quality.