[The role of emotional-volitional traits in patients with ischemic heart disease in carrying out dietetic recommendations during long-term clinical observation].

The influence of subjective (individual) prerequisites on the possibility of long-term following anti-atherosclerotic diets by coronary patients was investigated. Basing on the examination of the patients they were divided into three groups: those who strictly kept the diet (I), patients who moderately violated the diet (II), and those who did not keep the diet at home (III). Specific psychological methods used in the study allowed differentiation of these groups of patients.

[Nutrition factor in the treatment and prevention of ischemic heart disease under ambulatory care].

Study of the influence of a long-term staged use of diet therapy during prophylactic medical observation of post-myocardial infarction patients has shown that the anti-sclerosis diet used under clinical conditions was effective for relieving the angina pectoris syndrome and obtaining favourable dynamic changes in a number of metabolic parameters. Among the out-patients the diet was used by only 76 per cent. A comparative study of the results of diet therapy during the 3-year medical observation has shown a clear tendency to a gradual reduction of hyperlipoproteinemia and excessive body weight in patients who adhered to the diet.

[A computer-assisted method of evaluating the actual nutrition of patients with ischemic heart disease during their clinical observation].

The questionnaire method was used for the study of the actual nutrition of coronary patients after their discharge from the Clinic for Dietotherapy, during dispensary follow-up. The chemical composition of their diets was evaluated with computer, taking into consideration the losses during food preparing, and compared with the diets recommended. Certain variations in the chemical formula of the patients' home diets were revealed using this method.