[Socio-medical aspects of injuries on the Baikal-Amur main line].

In the past 10 years, the total rate of traumatism on the Baikal-Amur main line has reduced by 15% at the expense of occupational traumatism, whereas the rate of non-occupational injuries is on the rise. Males (86%) are prevalent among the victims. The most all-bodied persons (aged 21-40 years) account for 85.

[Development of medical and biological research in Eastern Siberia].

The impact of the North conditions on the human body has been studied. There are high morbidity and mortality rates, abnormal pregnancy, premature and abnormal labors, and congenital malformations in the newborn. A complex of medical and prophylactic measures has been worked out to protect human health as a result of the studies of the regularities of general and occupational diseases at some enterprises in the Far North, Yakutia, and Buryatia.

[Means for optimizing epizootiological research and territorial disease eradication].

The authors emphasize the usefulness of parallel studies, based on monitoring the most important components of the parasitic systems of several nosologic forms, co-inhabiting the studied territories. Such studies will improve the informative value of the data and reveal the common regularities in the development of sympatric foci of zoonoses. The knowledge of such regularities will help develop ecologically safe methods for regulation of the foci and sanitization of the territory.

[Possibilities for the polyclinic cardiologist in treating hyperlipoproteinemias in men with risk factors for ischemic heart disease].

A total of 158 males with coronary risk factors and excessive (4 to 55% above normal) body weight were treated by diet and exercise for hyperlipoproteinemia in an out-patient clinic for 18 months. Blood cholesterol decreased significantly, by 14.4% (p less than 0.