[Female geriatric patients with urinary incontinence symptoms and their control over pelvic floor muscles].

Unlabelled: Not only do anatomy and function of the pelvic floor play an important role as possible causes of female urinary incontinence, they are also crucial for its therapy. The aim of this case control study of female geriatric patients with symptoms of urinary incontinence was to determine the knowledge about their pelvic floor and to assess their ability to contract pelvic floor muscles voluntarily and reflexly.

Methods: A total of 377 female geriatric patients with symptoms of urinary incontinence were investigated in a Basis Assessment for Urinary incontinence.

Risk profile of SSrIs in elderly depressive patients with co-morbid physical illness.

Background: So far, most studies on treatment strategies in elderly depressive patients have included only patients in good physical health, thereby excluding and neglecting somatic co-morbidity, which is very prevalent and relevant in geriatric psychiatry.

Method: 40 elderly depressive inpatients at the Department of Internal Medicine in Hochzirl who had started on SSRI monotherapy were allocated to this prospective post-marketing surveillance study. A stable medication for their physical illness for at least six months was a prerequisite.

[Cognitive training in psycho-organic syndromes].

Seven of fourteen elderly female patients (mean age 82.3 [75-89] years) with abnormalities of cognition, memory and affect of organic causation were randomly assigned to be given cognitive training, especially relating to memory, as part of rehabilitation measures for medical or orthopaedic diseases. The other seven served as controls.

Ten years' experience in a cardiovascular disease prevention community programme in Austria.

In 1977, a field survey of coronary risk factors was undertaken in a Tyrolean village. All inhabitants aged between 20 and 64 years were investigated for hypercholesterolaemia, hypertension and smoking. In subsequent years a community intervention programme was developed and implemented in a joint endeavour between the general practitioners of the village and the project leader.

[Lipid values in a rural community].

In 1987 the population of a rural community in Tyrol aged 20 to 74 years was screened for plasma lipids (cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides). The mean cholesterol value was 205.8 mg/dl (5.

[10 years' intervention in coronary risk factors in a rural community].

In 1977 a field survey of coronary risk factors was undertaken in a Tyrolean village. All inhabitants aged between 20 and 64 years were investigated for hyper-cholesterolaemia, hypertension and smoking. In subsequent years a community intervention programme was developed and implemented in a joint endeavour between the general practitioners of the village and the project leader.

[Drug use by 60- to 74-year-old patients of a rural community. The Tyrolean Oberperfuss Heart Project].

Information on drug consumption was collected in May 1987 within the framework of the 10 year follow-up survey of a coronary risk factor detection programme in the Tyrolean village of Oberperfuss. Data were obtained from the entire cohort born between 1913 and 1927. On average, men took 1.

[Results of the Zirl prevention project].

A model for community health and social services was set up in 1979 in the village of Zirl, Tyrol. All persons entitled to a preventive medical examination, i.e.

Low-sodium diet versus low-sodium/high-potassium diet for treatment of hypertension.

In 21 patients with essential hypertension the effects of moderate sodium restriction from the usual 200 mmol Na/day to 80 mmol/day over 4 weeks were compared with the effects of a combined low-sodium/high-potassium intake (80 mmol Na/120 mmol K) which was also given over 4 weeks in an open crossover trial. Systolic blood pressure in nine untreated patients with essential hypertension decreased significantly by between 5 and 7 mm Hg during moderate sodium restriction; no further decrease of blood pressure occurred during the combined low-sodium/high-potassium diet. In 12 treated patients with essential hypertension moderate sodium restriction or the combined low-sodium/high-potassium diet enabled a marked reduction of anti-hypertensive therapy in eight patients without impairment of blood pressure control (beta-blockers by an average of 32%, saluretics by an average of 27% and vasodilators by an average of 24%).

[Coronary risk factors and their modification on the community level].

In 1977 a field survey of coronary risk factors was carried out on the inhabitants of the Tyrolean village Oberperfuss aged between 20 and 64 years. Height and weight were also measured. 295 men and 316 women, corresponding to 70 and 75% of the entire population participated in the baseline survey.

[Food composition and results of dietetic intervention in patients with hypercholesterolemia in a Tyrolean village. Tyrolean heart project of Oberperfuss].

In the course of a field survey of coronary risk factors carried out in the Tyrolean village of Oberperfuss, a 24-hour food recall form was filled in by all inhabitants aged between 20 and 64 years. The food composition is presented. The dietary intervention programme for people with hypercholesterolaemia resulted in a 19.

[Cooperation between internists and psychiatrists in the treatment of nicotine withdrawal as shown in a common project of the Innsbruck Medical University Clinic and the Department of Medical Psychology].

This paper shows a model of team-work between an internal specialist and a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, which aims at fighting against addiction to nicotine. Such team-work helps to increase the rate of success. The study described in this paper was carried out in a village in the Tyrol.

[Epidemiology of hepatitis (author's transl)].

Within the scope of a field survey carried out in the Tyrolean village of Oberperfuss in April 1977, a questionnaire was filled out by 296 men and 315 women aged between 20 and 64 years and the HBs Antigen (HBs Ag) was determined. 16,9% of the men and 15,9% of the woman, indicated that they suffered once from a liver disease of jaundice. The prevalence of HBs Ag positive subjects in men was 10,2/1000 and in woman, 3,2/1000.

[Electrocardiographic findings in a middle-aged rural population. Tyrolean Heart Project--Oberperfuss 1977 (author's transl)].

A field study on coronary risk factors has been carried out in a Tyrolean village on persons between 50 and 64 years. An Ecg was made on 69 men and 85 women, corresponding to 81.2% of the male and 90.

[Incidence and presentation of myocardial infarction in Tyrol, Austria; (WHO ischaemic heart disease register Innsbruck 1971/72) (author's transl)].

In 1971 a population-based Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) Register was established in the Innsbruck area as part of the WHO international collaborative study. Demographic and geographic data covering the area, as well as the locally-applied methods are described. One hundred and seventy four cases (133 males and 41 females) of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were registered in the age group 20-64 years.