Tracking of BMI, fatness and cardiorespiratory fitness from adolescence to middle adulthood: the Zagreb Growth and Development Longitudinal Study.

Background: Effective intervention strategies aiming to improve cardiorespiratory fitness and to decrease body fatness are needed. However, long-term stability of these traits is not well understood.

Aim: To assess long-term tracking of cardiorespiratory fitness and body fatness from late adolescence to middle adulthood.

The prevalence of smoking among Croatian hospitalized coronary heart disease patients.

The aim of this paper was to investigate the prevalence of smoking using selected anthropometric variables in a sample of hospitalized coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in Croatia (N = 1,298). A total of 444 subjects (34.6%) were non-smokers, 548 (42.

Patients in cardiac rehabilitation programme--where we were in 1999 and where 10 years later.

The aim of this study was to find out and compare characteristics of cardiac patients who, after hospital treatment, participated in cardiac rehabilitation programmes at the Polyclinic for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Zagreb during 1999 and 2009. The results show an increase in mean patients' age (men: 55.5 to 61.

[Epidemiology of acute coronary syndrome in the City of Zagreb].

Aim: Amongst cardiovascular diseases (CVD), acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is an important cause of cardiovascular mortality. The aim of the study was to examine ACS in Zagreb, to determine how it is treated, and to assess the extent to which new guidelines have been implemented in daily practice. During the last decades, great improvements have been made in the prevention and management of ACS.

[Secondary prevention and cardiac rehabilitation].

Coronary heart disease is a chronic disease with multifactorial etiology. The risk depends on several, already well-known, risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, smoking, obesity, physical inactivity, stress, etc. Multiple risk factors will increase the risk.

[Obesity and overweight in Croatia].

Aim: Obesity has become a growing public health problem. The number of obese people in the world is increasing, carrying a number of risks for the development of cardiovascular and other diseases. There are no easy or short-term solutions for this problem.

The "Chaos Theory" and nonlinear dynamics in heart rate variability analysis: does it work in short-time series in patients with coronary heart disease?

Background: Dynamic analysis techniques may quantify abnormalities in heart rate variability (HRV) based on nonlinear and fractal analysis (chaos theory). The article emphasizes clinical and prognostic significance of dynamic changes in short-time series applied on patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) during the exercise electrocardiograph (ECG) test.

Methods: The subjects were included in the series after complete cardiovascular diagnostic data.

Trends in acute myocardial infarction mortality and morbidity from 1979 to 2001 in the City of Zagreb, Croatia.

Aim: To define trends in age-adjusted acute myocardial infarction mortality and morbidity in women and men in the city of Zagreb, Croatia, in the period 1979-2001.

Methods: Acute myocardial infarctions occurring in both men and women at ages between 25 and 74 years were analyzed by using 1979-2001 data from the Acute Myocardial Infarction Population-based Register for the City of Zagreb, Croatia. The patients with myocardial infarction were identified retrospectively from the hospital discharge reports and death certificates in Zagreb hospitals and the Croatian Statistical Bureau.

Acute coronary syndrome and the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a 10-year retrospective study.

Objective: To examine the effects of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the occurrence of acute coronary syndrome among civilians.

Methods: The incidences of acute myocardial infarctions (first and recurrent) and unstable angina pectoris were examined among the residents of Mostar and the nine neighboring districts. The study population was the population that lived in the area before the war (182,000 in the 1991 census).

[Epidemiologic importance of acute coronary syndrome in the population of the city of Zagreb].

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the number of hospitalized patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in the Zagreb population.

Methods: Zagreb residents hospitalized in five Zagreb hospitals (Sveti Duh General Hospital, Merkur, Sestre Milosrdnice, Dubrava University Hospitals, and Zagreb University Hospital Center) during 2000 and 2001 with the diagnosis of ACS, were examined. Patients who suffered from acute myocardial infarction with ST elevation (STEMI), patients with acute myocardial infarction without ST elevation (NSTEMI) and patients with unstable angina (UA) were analyzed according to gender and outcome.