[Social and hygienic characteristics of health of young athletes].

A complex sociohygienic study carried out at two republican Olympic reserve athletic colleges and three athletic schools for children revealed specific features in the life style and conditions of life of young athletes, helped define the pattern of their morbidity and health status.

[Long-term results of the program for preventing ischemic heart disease in Moscow (10-year follow-up study)].

The paper provides the results obtained from implementation of the programme on multifactorial prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Moscow, which provided strong evidence for a reduction in the levels of major risk factors and mortality from cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease. The efficiency of comprehensive prophylactic measures in persons with clinical signs of CHD showed up at year 3 of their implementation and retains in subsequent years. At the same time in persons without CHD signs a mortality reduction starting at years 4-5 of the follow-up virtually came to an end when a further active intervention ceased.

[Use of Regenkur hydrogel in the local treatment of burns].

In local treatment of patients with II-IIIA degree burns with the area of from 1.5 to 20% of body surface, the use of hydrogel on the basis of a polymeric sorbent Regencur contributed to attenuation of pain, 2-fold reduction in number of dressings, creation of favourable conditions for course of the reparative processes in burn wounds.

[Alcohol consumption habits in a population of 40- to 59-year-old men and its prognostic value in relation to mortality].

Alcohol consumption practice was studied by a method of interview in an unorganized male population aged 40 to 59 investigated by a program of multifactorial CHD prevention. The frequency of spreading of this habit and its intensity were determined. The frequency of alcohol consumption was decreased with age and was associated with the examinees' educational level.