[Clinical aspect of diagnostics of gastroesophageal reflux disease in elderly patients.].

Insufficient knowledge age peculiarities of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in the elderly against the background of its prevalence determine the high demand for studies on the topic. In an open study cohort by cross-sectional analysis was conducted clinical features GERD patients older age groups. By continuous sampling of 90 patients taken away: the main group - 45 persons 60-86, comparison group - 45 persons 25-59 years.

[COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH IN BABIES OF EARLY PRESCHOOL AGE].

Health of the children's population is one of the most important components of safety of the country. The incidence level in children of early age reflects an interaction of economic, ecological, social and hygienic and medico-organizational factors in society. The issue of the paper is the comprehensive assessment of health of children of the first three years of life upon indices of the morbidity rate, physical development, interrelation of given indices with the structure of the family and their social status.

[Role of cholestanol in the pathogenesis of cholesterol cholelithiasis].

The proportion of cholestanol/cholesterol in hepatic and cystic bile was evaluated using capillary gas-chromatography in subjects with disturbances in the biliary system (biliary dyskinesia, chronic acalculous cholecystitis, chronic calculous cholecystitis). The proportion was also measured in bile "paste" and cholesterol choleliths. With progression of cholesterol cholelithiasis, the proportion cholestanol/cholesterol increases, reaching its maximum in the stone the center of which accumulates crystals of cholestanol-cholesterol dihydrate.