[Outpatient 24-hr monitoring of arterial blood pressure in women with arterial hypertension during postmenopausal period].

The article is dedicated to a pressing problem of arterial hypertension in the postmenopausal period. Our objective in this study was identifying of special features of the course of arterial hypertension by data secured from a 24-hr monitoring of AH in those women in the post-menopausal period of both surgical and natural genesis. Those women with a surgical menopause had a higher level of AH in the diastole, with that in the systole being the same as in the control group in spite of the fact that the former women were at about the same age, as evidenced by results of the study made.

[C-reactive protein and defect in lipid transport blood system in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

In 88 patients with rheumatoid arthritis lipid-protein spectrum of the blood serum were determined biochemically and by means of nefelometric technique, C-reactive protein (CRP) was measured with enzyme immunoassay. An increase in CRP concentration was associated with lowering of apoA1 and HDL FL, triglycerides. Thus, elevation of CRP in RA reflects not only activity of inflammation but also defects in serum lipid-transport system by the atherogenic type.

[Effect of ozone therapy on hemostatic changes in patients with vascular atherosclerosis].

Hemostatic changed induced by ozone therapy were studied in 81 patients with atherosclerosis of different vessels in 81 patients. It was found that use of ozone-oxygen mixtures leads to hypocoagulatory changes (diminution of platelet aggregation, lowering of fibrinogen concentration, prolongation of activated partial thromboplastin time, enhanced fibrinolytic activity) which contribute to clinical response.