[Socio-hygienic characteristics of primiparae over 30 years of age].

A complex sociohygienic study of primaparous women aged 30 and over enables one to believe that along with leading biological risk factor, that is age, sociohygienic and medicodemographic factors also play an important role. This group of primaparous women requires special attention on the part of obstetricians and other specialists. One of the priorities are health-promoting activities before and during pregnancy and also the expansion of specialized medical care provided to them.

[Characteristics of myocardial hypertrophy in arterial hypertension of various origins and in atherosclerosis].

Sets of conventional macroscopic and up-to-date histochemical techniques were employed to study hearts from 267 patients who had died of essential hypertension, atherosclerosis or secondary renal hypertension. Excessive cardiac mass was found disease-specific and related to the time since hypertension onset. Cardiac hypertrophy was augmenting with growing deficiency of coronary blood supply and showed specific correlation between cardiomyocyte nucleus and cytoplasm within each nosological unit mentioned.