[Blood pressure dynamics and prognostication of hypertension: 20-year follow-up of children's cohort].

Aim: To track dynamics of blood pressure (BP) from childhood to young maturity and to determine predictors of hypertension.

Methods: School children (n=1082) were examined in a framework of an international program on juvenile hypertension in 1976-1977. Samples of this initial cohort were reexamined in 1988 (n=444) and 1997 (n=505).

[Approaches to the secondary prevention of arterial hypertension among the population (data from a cooperative study on the multifactorial prevention of ischemic heart disease)].

A cooperative study has reviewed the prevalence of arterial hypertension (AH) among 40- to 59-year-old male residents of three cities (Moscow, Minsk and Kaunas) and the possibility of organizing a long-term outpatient treatment of newly-detected AH cases as well as the efficiency of the latter. Of 16,703 individuals screened, AH was detected in 27.9%.

[Incidence of risk factors for chronic noninfectious diseases among the population of 2 rural therapeutic districts in the Lithuanian SSR and the knowledge of the inhabitants of the presence of their risk factors].

During examination of the adult population of two rural communities: 1558 inhabitants of a settlement of Salantai and 1713 inhabitants of a settlement of Merkine their arterial pressure was measured and they were interviewed. A high prevalence of risk factors of chronic noncommunicable diseases was established. Arterial hypertension was detected almost in 1/3 of the examined population, 50% of the male population smoked, 40.

[Experimental prophylactic and prospective epidemiological studies of ischemic heart disease in Kaunas].

The authors report on the data of two epidemiological investigations of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) that were undertaken in Kaunas (Kaunas-Rotterdam Intervention Study 1972 - 1974) to study the efficacy of the multifactorial prevention of IHD. The comparison of the screening data of representative selections in men 45-59 years no significant spread of IHD and its risk factors have been found. On the strength of the data of prospective observation of selection of the first investigation a statistically significant relationship between the risk factors and the spread of the stenosing atherosclerosis in the coronaries have been recorded.