[Predictors of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome According to Results of Clinical Examintion and Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring].

Objective: to determine the predictors of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) basing on clinical examination, results of night pulse oximetry, daily dynamics of heart rate and blood pressure (BP) in men with newly diagnosed arterial hypertension (AH).

Materials And Methods: Men (n=197, mean age 40.1 ± 8.

[Predictors of Electrical Myocardial Instability in Men With Arterial Hypertension and Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Hypopnea Syndrome].

Objective: To access the detectability of corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation ( more or equal 450 ms) and increased QT dispersion (QTd more or equal 60 ms) in men with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAS) and newly diagnosed arterial hypertension (AH).

Material And Methods: We included in this study 138 men (mean age 40.5+/-6.

[Characterization of arrhythmia in pulmonary hypertension in patients with bronchial obstructive diseases].

To study the pattern and incidence of arrhythmias in relation to the mean pulmonary trunk pressure (MPTP), 24-hour SCG monitoring and Doppler pulse EchoCG were performed in 32 patients with chronic obstructive lung disease and in 13 patients with bronchial asthma. The summarized results of 24-hour ECG suggest that the number and grades of arrhythmias increase when MPTP becomes more than 13 mm Hg. There is a highly significant mean force correlation between MPTP and complicated cardiac arrhythmias (paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, coupled ventricular extrasystoles, and unsteady ventricular tachycardia).

[Clinical characteristics of hypertensive disease in patients with alexithymia].

Aim: To study hemodynamics and metabolism in patients with hypertensive disease and various severity of alexithymia.

Material And Methods: Psychological testing was included into complex examination of 202 patients with stage II hypertensive disease.

Results: Patients with alexithymia had longer duration of hypertensive load, higher frequency of target organs damage, intensified processes of lipid peroxidation and depressed activity of antioxidant defense, derangements of lipid metabolism.