Hypertension in the Polish elderly: Insights into prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control from the NOMED-AF study.

Background: Hypertension is a significant global health issue, disproportionately affecting the elderly population. In Poland, the rapid aging of the population underscores the need for updating data on the epidemiology of hypertension in the elderly.

Aims: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among individuals aged 65 and older in Poland.

Impact of diabetes mellitus severity, treatment regimen and glycaemic control on atrial fibrillation prevalence in the Polish population aged ≥ 65.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a well-known risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF), but the mechanism(s) by which DM affects AF prevalence remains unclear. This study aims to evaluate the impact of diabetes mellitus severity (expressed as its known duration), antihyperglycemic treatment regimen and glycaemic control on AF prevalence. From the representative sample of 3014 participants (mean age 77.

Prevalence and determinants of psychotropic medication use in Poland.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of psychotropic medication use among adult population in Poland in past 12 months, and to analyse the relationship between psychotropic medication use and sociodemographic factors as well as mental health disorders experienced by respondents.

Methods: Composite International Diagnostic Instrument (WHO CIDI 3.0) was used in Polish survey of general population aged 18-64.

The COVID-19 Crisis and the Incidence of Alcohol-Related Deaths in Poland.

BACKGROUND Identifying risk and protective factors for excessive alcohol consumption can inform targeted health policies, reducing the impact of potential mental health crises. This study examined the validity and reliability of COVID-19-related death data and explored the correlations among age, sex, residential status, alcohol abuse, and healthcare access. MATERIAL AND METHODS This analysis of Polish residents' mortality relies on individual data from the register of deaths maintained by Statistics Poland.

Clustering of the Adult Population According to Behavioural Health Risk Factors as the Focus of Community-Based Public Health Interventions in Poland.

Effective lifestyle health promotion interventions require the identification of groups sharing similar behavioural risk factors (BRF) and socio-demographic characteristics. This study aimed to identify these subgroups in the Polish population and check whether local authorities' health programmes meet their needs. Population data came from a 2018 question survey on a random representative sample of 3000 inhabitants.

Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in the 65 or over Polish population. Report of cross-sectional NOMED-AF study.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, characterized by an increased risk of thromboembolic complications that can be markedly reduced with anticoagulation. There is a paucity of studies assessing the total prevalence of AF in national populations.

Aims: To assess the nationwide prevalence of AF in a population of adults ≥65 old and to determine the impact of duration of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring on the number of newly detected AF episodes.

Evaluating Organizational Performance of Public Hospitals using the McKinsey 7-S Framework.

Background: This study examined non-financial aspects of the organizational performance of public hospitals from the perspective of hospital physicians; the obtained results were analyzed to identify the necessary improvements in organizational performance.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of multidisciplinary public hospitals on a group of 249 randomly selected physicians from 22 in-patient departments or clinics operating in the Warsaw region. The study data was collected using the structured World Health Organization questionnaires (to be filled out by respondents) assessing the hospital's organizational performance variables qualified according to the McKinsey 7-S Framework.

Relationship between diabetes mellitus and atrial fibrillation prevalence in the Polish population: a report from the Non-invasive Monitoring for Early Detection of Atrial Fibrillation (NOMED-AF) prospective cross-sectional observational study.

Background: The global burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) and diabetes mellitus (DM) is constantly rising, leading to an increasing healthcare burden of stroke. AF often remains undiagnosed due to the occurrence in an asymptomatic, silent form, i.e.

Association between cardiovascular diseases and depressive symptoms in adults. A pooled analysis of population-based surveys: WOBASZ, NATPOL 2011, and WOBASZ II.

INTRODUCTION Psychosocial risk factors play an important role in the origins of cardiovascular risk. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of depressive symptoms (DSs) in relation to some sociodemographic characteristics and selected cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and to assess the relationship between self‑reported CVDs and the severity of DSs. PATIENTS AND METHODS Three cross‑sectional population‑based surveys: WOBASZ (2003-2005), NATPOL 2011 (2011), and WOBASZ II (2013-2014) covered a total sample of 20 514 participants (9614 men and 10 900 women), aged 20 to 74 years, who all completed the Beck Depression Inventory.

Occupational position and alcohol use disorders in Poland.

Objectives: The following analysis covers the role of the occupational structure in the prevalence of alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The authors investigated whether the occupational position affected the prevalence of AUDs among men and women, and how this relationship varied in lifetime and past year periods.

Material And Methods: Data were taken from the General Population Survey on Mental Health in Poland (EZOP) utilizing the questionnaire (N = 2806).

Screening of problem gambling among a homeless population in Warsaw.

Background: While homelessness and problem gambling are both recognised as social and public health concerns and the prevalence of addictive disorders among homeless populations tends to be high. These questions have been studied predominantly independently.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the co-occurrence of the two phenomena among the homeless population using shelters and night shelters in Warsaw, and, more specifically, to provide information about the forms and frequency of gambling in this homeless population.

Motivation factors affecting the job attitude of medical doctors and the organizational performance of public hospitals in Warsaw, Poland.

Background: This paper examines the relationship between selected motivation factors that affect the attitude to work among medical doctors at public hospitals and the organizational performance of hospitals.

Methods: This study was based on World Health Organization questionnaires designed to estimate motivation factors according to Herzberg's motivation theory and to measure the level of organizational performance of hospitals by using the McKinsey model. A survey was conducted among physicians (n = 249) with either surgical (operative) or nonsurgical (conservative) specialty in 22 departments/units of general public hospitals in Warsaw, Poland.

Variations in experience of social support and physical health among adult residents of Poland in urban versus rural areas.

Background: A study reveals – against to common beliefs –less support between rural area residents in comparison to town-dwellers and significantly higher support for healthy, not for poor health research participants.

Objectives: The aim of our paper was comparing support from spouse/partner, relatives, friends and strangers among people with good and ill physical health. A next purpose was to find differences of social support and experience of social undermining in urban and rural residential settings.

Prognostic role of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Introduction: Metabolic alterations have been recently associated with onset and progression of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH). We aimed to determine the prevalence and prognostic role of cardiovascular risk factors in patients with IPAH.

Material And Methods: Between February 2009 and January 2015 we recruited consecutive IPAH patients.

Smoking ban in public places and myocardial infarction hospitalizations in a European country with high cardiovascular risk: insights from the Polish nationwide AMI-PL database.

Introduction: Previous studies demonstrated a possible positive effect of a smoking ban in public places on cardiovascular outcomes. However, little is known about the influence of such regulations in Poland, a country with a high cardiovascular risk.

Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the association of hospitalization rates for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Poland before and after the introduction of the smoking ban in public places in November 2010.

Nationwide General Hospital Morbidity Study as a source of data about Polish population health.

The objective of this article is description of the important source of data on hospitalised morbidity collected in Poland within the frameworks of public statistics, and also underlying the significance of the quality of data collected at the hospital level for the purpose of the practical application of them. The Nationwide General Hospital Morbidity Study has been conducted by the Department of Population Health Monitoring and Analysis of the NIPH-NIH for more than 40 years within the frameworks of the Programme of Statistical Surveys of Official Statistics. Since the year 2000, it has had a complete character, collecting individual data for all cases of hospitalisation in Poland within the scope compliant with the MZ/Szp-11 form, among others, sex, age, place of residence of a patient, data on hospital, information about the course of treatment (length of stay in hospital, principal diagnosis and comorbidity, applied medical procedures, the mode of admission and discharge).

Depressive symptoms and cardiovascular diseases in the adult Polish population. Results of the NATPOL2011 study.

Background: Poland is a country of high cardiovascular risk. Because depression was found to be a predictor of coronary artery disease and the prevalence of depressive symptoms (DSs) has risen worldwide, their monitoring in the population is desirable.

Aim: We sought to evaluate the prevalence of DSs in relation to the socio-demographic status and selected types of cardio-vascular diseases in the adult Polish population.

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C) is a well established metabolic marker of cardiovascular risk, however, its role in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has not been determined. Therefore we assessed whether LDL-C levels are altered in PAH patients, if they are associated with survival in this group and whether pulmonary hypertension (PH) reversal can influence LDL-C levels. Consecutive 46 PAH males and 94 females were age matched with a representative sample of 1168 males and 1245 females, respectively.

Prevalence of lipid abnormalities in Poland. The NATPOL 2011 survey.

Background: Poland represents a country of high cardiovascular (CV) risk. The association between lipid abnormalities and increased CV risk is well established. Therefore, it is important to monitor the prevalence and control of dyslipidaemia.

[The prevalence of common mental disorders in the population of adult Poles by sex and age structure - an EZOP Poland study].

Aim: The article presents lifetime (LT) prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) in accordance with the DSMIV classification, based on assessment of representative population sample of 10,081 Poles aged 18-64.

Methods: Computer based WHO CIDI3.0 was adapted for the Polish population according to WMH protocol.

["Epidemiology of mental disorders and access to mental health care. EZOP - Poland" - research methodology].

Aim: Since the second half of the twentieth century, with the development of structured diagnostic tools, population based studies on epidemiology of mental disorders are carried out. A special role is played by World Mental Health Survey Initiative which brings together a group of countries from different continents in order to carry out research projects according to standard methodology using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Polish EZOP study, which was conducted in accordance with the guidelines of WMH joined that group.

Incidence, treatment, in-hospital mortality and one-year outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Poland in 2009-2012--nationwide AMI-PL database.

Background And Aim: Nationwide data on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are available for some Western but not for Central and Eastern European countries. We performed a study on nationwide data of all Polish AMI patients in 2009-2012 to assess incidence, quality of care, and cardiovascular events during 1 year following AMI.

Methods: The database of the only public, obligatory health insurer in Poland (National Health Fund) together with data from the Central Statistical Office were used.

[Perception of environmental health risks related to living in the vinicity of communal waste incineration plant--part II].

Objective: The analysis of the environmental risk perception by residents living in the vicinity of the Solid Communal Waste Utilisation Plant (ZUSOK) in Warsaw. The study was to reveal the factors related to perception the incinerator as a cause of frequent illnesses in the families and to intention of changing the place of residence because of the plant's neighbourhood.

Material And Methods: questionnaire survey of 501 respondents, who have been living in the radius of 3km from the incinerator since at least 2 years prior to its activation.

[Perception of environmental health risks related to living in the vicinity of communal waste incineration plant].

Objective: an evaluation of the environmental risk perception by residents living in proximity to the Solid Communal Waste Utilisation Plant (ZUSOK) in Warsaw.

Material And Methods: a questionnaire survey of 501 respondents was conducted. All subjects have been living within a radius of 3 km from the incinerator since at least 1998.

Gender-specific mortality associated with alcohol consumption in Poland in transition.

Aims: To show the impact of rapid political and economic transitions on alcohol consumption and associated mortality in different socio-demographic segments of the Polish society, with particular focus on gender differences. Two causes of death associated with drinking (liver diseases and alcohol poisoning) are investigated.

Design: Mortality time series 1986-2002 are analysed against consumption estimates and population drinking survey data.