[Rational nutrition as a prerequisite for eliminating the risk of overweight: public opinion and practice].

Objective: Introduction: The awareness of the working-age population regarding the principles of a healthy lifestyle and risk factors of diseases is analyzed. Aim: To identify and characterize the level of awareness of the working-age population regarding the essence of a healthy lifestyle and risk factors (with a focus on irrational nutrition and its consequences).

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: In the sociological study (2017), on request of Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration, methods of deep (N20) and personalized formal interviews (N2000) were used according to a specially developed methodology of qualitative and quantitative research stages and data collection tools.

[Interrelation of morphological changes of a mucous membrane of a duodenum and bowel microflora contents at cholelithiasis].

It is shown that biliary disorders in a combination with chronic duodenitis are accompanied by infringements of bowel microflora. It is revealed that more expressed changes of structure of microflora were observed at chronic duodenitis 2nd and 3rd degree. Strong correlation connection between degree chronic duodenitis and degree bowel dysbiosis (r = +0,55) is established.

[Pharmacological analysis of the anticonvulsant action of kavinton].

In experiments on rats it was found that cavinton administered in doses of 1-30 mg/kg exerted a distinct dose-dependent anticonvulsant effect, according to the test of maximal electroshock, not less than that of phenobarbital, difenin and carbamazepine. Combined use of cavinton and these drugs potentiated its anticonvulsant action. The involvement of noradrenergic systems, in particular, alpha 1-adrenoceptors, in the anticonvulsant effect of cavinton is suggested.

[Use of cavinton in epilepsy].

The authors studied the effect of cavinton (15-45 mg/day) and its combinations with different anticonvulsants on the time-course of different forms of epilepsy. In 20 of the 31 patients studied treatment with cavinton either significantly decreased the frequency of attacks or led to their complete disappearance; in 7 patients the improvement was insignificant and in 4 the condition deteriorated. The greatest effect of cavinton was observed in generalized tonic-clonic convulsions and when they were combined with absences.