[A correlation of the intensity of the gas discharge luminescence of the skin and the activity of succinate dehydrogenase in blood lymphocytes in different states of the body].

The integral area of gas discharge luminescence of the hand finger skin and the activity of succinate dehydrogenase in lymphocytes in blood smears from patients with food allergia and attendant hypertension has been measured. Succinate dehydrogenase in these patients was hyperactivated or inhibited as compared with healthy persons. At more substantial deviations of activity, a more clearly pronounced hypertension was observed.

[Tuberculosis mortality in Sverdlovsk region under the present conditions].

The tuberculosis mortality rate is the most informative epidemiological indicator. Tuberculosis mortality in the Sverdlovsk Region in 1989-1996 directly, closely, and significantly correlated with tuberculosis morbidity and general mortality. The structure of manpower losses caused by premature tuberculosis mortality due to antituberculosis work defects included one third of losses associated with the defects of antituberculosis work, about one fourth of those with the general therapeutical network, one tenth of those with sanitary epidemiological surveillance centers and another approximately one third with failure of detection and treatment of patients with tuberculosis.

[Analysis of tuberculosis mortality dynamics in Sverdlovsk region in 1995-96].

Among the deceased in the Sverdlovsk Region in 1995 - 1996 there was a larger proportion of males and individuals aged over 40 years, unemployed, homeless persons, patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis, concomitant diseases and a smaller proportion of those with prolonged pulmonary tuberculosis, its fibrocavernous type, persons who died from secondary nonspecific changes and complications of the tuberculosis process. Today the most common causes of premature death due to tuberculosis are in patients' refusal of treatment, systemic incompliance, a severe concomitant disease, contraindications for surgical treatment, drug resistance to tuberculostatic agents, drug shortage, late referral for medical aid and long-term evasion of prophylactic surveys for tuberculosis.