ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS FOR ISCHEMIC STROKE IN RURAL RESIDENTS OF THE AKTOBE REGION.

Stroke continues to be a major global health concern, accounting for the fifth highest death rate and a sizable portion of the world's disability burden. Over 40,000 stroke cases are reported annually in the Republic of Kazakhstan, of which 5,000 people die within the first 10 days and an additional 5,000 within a month after discharge. Even with the establishment of regional stroke centers, a state anti-stroke program, and substantial efforts, rural communities still experience higher rates of stroke-related morbidity and mortality.

[DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY OF PARKONSON'S DISEASE AND ESSENTIAL TREMOR: REVIEW AND CLINICAL CASE].

At present, the problem of differential diagnosis and therapy of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor is one of the topical issues of modern clinical neurology. Despite the nosological independence of these diseases, there is evidence of their pathogenetic relationship. The article presents a review of the results of modern scientific research devoted to the study of criteria for diagnosing Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.

[PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF BIOMARKERS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ACTIVITY].

About 30-40% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients treated with interferon-beta (IFN-ß) develop neutralizing antibodies (NABs) to IFN-ß. NABs reduce bioavailability of IFN-ß, which leads to a decrease in the therapy effectiveness. The introduction of IFN-ß induce production of several proteins, which are used as markers of the therapy effectiveness.

[MODERN APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (REVIEW AND CLINICAL CASE)].

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic dysimmune neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system, that affects people of working age and inevitably leads to disability. Treatment of the disease is one of the urgent problems of modern clinical neurology, which is explained by the variety of clinical variants of the flow, the lack of an effective method of treatment. This article is devoted to a review of modern approaches to the issues of etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of multiple sclerosis.