[Age characteristics of the cardiovascular system, depending on the thyroid function in type 2 diabetes mellitus].

To study the features of cardiovascular system in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 considering the thyroid pathology and age, 264 patients were examined. They were divided into three groups: 1st - patients with diffuse-nodular changes in the thyroid gland, 2nd - patients with autoimmune thyroid disease, 3rd - a control group of patients without thyroid disease. The patients of different ages were examined in each of these groups.

[International scientific project: the investigation of pregnancy and childhood].

ELSPAC, European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood, is the first prospective geographically based series of population studies which was designed to start during pregnancy and to follow up the cohort of births till the age of 7 years. This study was initiated at the WHO(EURO) meeting in 1985 in Moscow. Various centers in Europe contributed to it in the Czeck Republic, Greece, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, Ukraine.