Blood pressure and contributing factors in inhabitants of Estonia: 15-year trends.

Aim: To study the 15-year trends of blood pressure (BP) values in inhabitants of Estonia, three independent random samples of the population of Tallinn aged 20-54 years were examined in 1984/86, 1992/94 and in 1999/2001.

Results: A substantial decrease in BP values was observed in the population of Tallinn by the early 1990s; it continued to a smaller extent during the late 1990s. An improvement in some factors contributing to the development of arterial hypertension: decrease in body mass index (BMI) mean values and positive dietary changes were observed during this period.

Nutritional assessment of elderly people in nursing house and at home in Tallinn.

In Merivälja nursing house, the actual nutrition in 2000 (by menus in 10 days intervals in January and April) of 105 elderly was calculated (with the local ANKE-PC-program) and compared with the nutrition data of the same nursing house in 1978 and of the home-living retired elderly people in 1995. Nutritional status has been estimated by Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and Body Mass Index (BMI) in 51 elderly (aged 51-97 years) at the nursing house and in 150 elderly (aged 58-86 years) living at home in Tallinn. Over 20 years interval there was only a modest improvement in nutrition (P/C ratio had achieved 0.

Effect of apo E phenotype on plasma postprandial triglyceride levels in young male adults with and without a familial history of myocardial infarction: the EARS II study. European Atherosclerosis Research Study.

The goal of the present study was to assess whether the effect of the apolipoprotein E polymorphism on postprandial lipemia explained part of the risk attributable to familial history of coronary heart disease. Cases (n = 407) were students, aged between 18 and 28 years, whose fathers had a proven myocardial infarction before the age of 55 years. Age-matched controls (n = 415) were recruited from the corresponding student registers.

[The regional characteristics of the blood plasma lipid levels and of the indices of arterial pressure and physical development in schoolchildren of Russian nationality living in different climatic-geographic areas (based on the data from a single study in Ashgabad, Moscow, Orenburg, Tyumen and Tallinn)].

Random samples from a schoolchildren population living in different climatic and geographic regions were entered in the standard epidemiological survey. They were examined for plasma lipids vs. arterial pressure and physical development.

[Effects of prophylactic vitamin administration to Tallin's schoolchildren on their health and physical development].

Data are presented on the influence of prophylactic vitamin administration to schoolchildren in two schools on their health. The morbidity rate significantly decreased, the levels of lysozyme in the saliva, hemoglobin in the blood and total protein in the blood serum rose in the children who received multivitamin "Undevitum" during 5-7 months, as compared to those who were not given the vitamins. Vitamin administration did not influence the physical development of schoolchildren.