The predicted impact of heart disease prevention and treatment initiatives on mortality in Lithuania, a middle-income country.

Introduction: Disease-prevention programs compete with disease-treatment programs for scarce resources. This analysis predicts the impact of heart disease prevention and treatment initiatives for Lithuania, a middle-income Baltic country of 3.3 million people.

[Physical and mental health of stroke survivors and their daily activities].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to compare the quality of life between stroke survivors and controls with respect to their health, daily activities, and emotional status. CONTINGENT AND METHODS OF THE STUDY: The studied group consisted of 508 25-84-year-old inhabitants of Kaunas city who have survived first-onset stroke. The control group consisted of 508 age- and sex-matched randomly selected inhabitants of Kaunas city who had not experienced stroke.

The dependence of successful resuscitation on electrocardiographically documented cardiac rhythm in case of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Objective: To determine the influence of electrocardiographically documented cardiac rhythm during sudden cardiac arrest on successful resuscitation among out-of-hospital deaths in Kaunas city.

Material And Methods: An observational prospective study was conducted between 1 January, 2005, and 30 December, 2005, in Kaunas city with a population of 360,627 inhabitants. In this period, all cases of cardiac arrest were analyzed according to the guidelines of the Utstein consensus conference.

Short-term and one-year prognosis of diabetic patients with a first-ever myocardial infarction.

Objectives: To clarify the importance of clinical features and changes in the first electrocardiogram in 28-day and 1-year mortality in patients with diabetes.

Material And Methods: Men and women of Kaunas city aged 25-64 years with the first-ever myocardial infarction during 1983-1992 and with the first electrocardiogram were enrolled in the study. Electrocardiograms were coded using the WHO MONICA Project Protocol criteria and the Minnesota Code.

Sex differences in one-year mortality after a first-ever myocardial infarction.

Objectives: To determine the significance of sex in one-year prognosis of death from ischemic heart disease after a first-ever myocardial infarction.

Material And Methods: Kaunas men and women aged 25-64 years and admitted to the hospitals of Kaunas due to a first-ever myocardial infarction during 1983-1992, and with a first coded electrocardiogram were enrolled into the study. Electrocardiograms were analyzed using the criteria of the Monitoring Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease (MONICA) Project of World Health Organization (WHO) and the Minnesota Code.

Morbidity and mortality from the major cardiovascular diseases in Kaunas population from 1983 to 2002.

Unlabelled: THE AIM of the present study was to evaluate the trends in morbidity and mortality from ischemic heart disease and stroke in Kaunas population aged 25-64 years from 1983 to 2002.

Material And Methods: The source of data is the official mortality statistics and Kaunas population-based ischemic heart disease and stroke registers. The methods used for the data collection were those applied by the WHO MONICA project.