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I Orha

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Decrease in ventilatory capacity between ages of 50 and 54 in representative sample of Swedish men.

The ventilatory capacity, including flow-volume curves of 313 men, all 50 years old, was examined in 1963 and 1967. The group as a whole, which included persons with chronic bronchitis, with "other respiratory symptoms," and without respiratory symptoms, showed the same absolute decrease in ventilatory capacity.Vital capacity, forced expiratory volume, and maximum expiratory flow all dropped more for the smokers than for either the non-smokers or the ex-smokers. In those who had stopped smoking for four years or less, however, ventilatory capacity did not decline significantly less than in those who continued to smoke.

Aging

Comparative behaviour of antithrombin III antigen and antithrombin III activity in cardiovascular patients.

Antithrombin III-functional (AT III F) and immunoprotein (AT III I) assessed by two comparative methods in various cardiovascular conditions, showed significant differences between the two parameters, namely: a simultaneous decrease of both AT III F and AT III I during acute embolic episodes of only AT III F in transient ischemic attacks (with normal level of AT III I) and increase of AT III I (with apparently normal AT III F) in patient with mitral valve prosthesis. It is considered that in condition of "hypercoagulability" various patterns of AT III F/AT III I ratio can be obtained: decompensated, compensated and hypercompensated consumption.

Adult