[Epidemiology of arterial hypertension and various characteristics of mineral metabolism among nomadic stock breeders in Tuva].

To reveal cardiovascular abnormalities, a screening was made in Tuva, which covered 1481 nomadic stock breeders, 1041 settled natives and 1081 migrants. The incidence of arterial hypertension (AH) was 33.5% among the nomadic stock breeders and 17.

[Effect of the vertebral syndrome in cervical osteochondrosis on the course of I-IIA stage hypertension and cerebral electrical activity and hemodynamics].

Examination included two groups of patients with I-IIA stage essential hypertension combined with cervical osteochondrosis: with and without the vertebral syndrome. It revealed significant polymorphism of clinical symptoms, more severe course of vascular pathology, disorders of cerebral hemodynamics with decreased pulse blood filling, increased tone of arterioles, venules and veins, signs of disturbances of venous outflow and features of bioelectric brain activity indicating dysfunction of the middle structures in patients with the vertebral syndrome of cervical osteochondrosis. Since the pathogenic significance of cervical osteochondrosis is mostly realized in the presence of the vertebral syndrome, therapeutic policy should involve both antihypertensive agents and measures that control vertebrogenic pathology as well as medicamentous correction of hemodynamic cerebral disturbances.

[Prevalence of ischemic heart disease and its risk factors among Tuva cattle-breeders].

A simultaneous comprehensive epidemiological survey of 1198 cattle-breeders was conducted in central and southern Tuva. CHD in men was diagnosed in 11.1%, in women in 24.