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S Böthig

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PubMed1990

[Role of the occupational health service in the control of hypertension].

By a representative random sample in an order of magnitude of 5,150 employees the determination of the degree of knowledge of the hypertensives in the factory health service of metal mines showed nearly 100%. In the dispensary of the factory medical officer 64.2% were registered. 36.6% of the hypertensives were stabilised to blood pressure values below 160/95 mm Hg. Forms of therapy, cardiovascular risk factors associated with high blood pressure and effects of the working environment were investigated by means of factor and discriminance analysis with regard to the influence on the quality of the stabilisation of high blood pressure. The compliance resulted as essential limiting factor in the treatment of hypertension. 71% of the hypertensives reported a regular intake of medicaments, in which case 51% admitted to interrupt it without consulting the physician in charge when the constitution is disturbed. 4 features were determined as essential factors which have influence on the compliance: the opinion concerning the duration of the treatment of hypertension, the attitude to the intake of medicaments, the frequency of the intake of the tablets and the observation of the terms of blood pressure control. The investigation of the physician's compliance resulted, apart from an overestimation of the patient's compliance, in distinct deviations from the recommendations for diagnosis and therapy given. The compliance of nurses showed deficiencies in the standardized measurement of blood pressure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Adult↗
PubMed1990

[Physician compliance in the treatment of hypertension].

The physician compliance is determined by knowledge, skill and behaviour. In 103 physicians working in the basic medical care investigations of the compliance were performed. Partly clear deviations from the guidelines recommended were found in the habits of diagnostics and therapy. These deviations frequently concerned even the majority of the physicians asked for. While the knowledge can relatively easily be judged according to objective criteria, the behaviour is difficult to be measured. Of 4 physicians with comparable knowledge concerning the clinical picture of hypertension the influence of the behaviour of the physician on the success of therapy was investigated during a psycho-physiologically orientated group therapy and the breath-induced relaxation training. The univariate and discriminance-analytic investigations as well as the factor analyses showed the behaviour of the physician as essentially determinating for the success of the therapy. The determination of the physician compliance gives the possibility to recognize still existing insufficiencies in the treatment of hypertension. It serves for the further optimization of the therapy of hypertension. Measures increasing the compliance among others can be derived also for the training and further training.

Adult↗
PubMed1989

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in developing countries.

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease can be prevented by simple methods of primary health care. Well-organized prevention programmes can be cost-effective. Lasting benefit depends on the maintenance of both local interest and financial support from governments.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

WHO MONICA Project: objectives and design.

The WHO MONICA Project is a multicentre international collaborative project coordinated by the World Health Organization. Its objective is to measure trends in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity and to assess the extent to which these trends are related to changes in risk factor levels and/or medical care, measured at the same time in defined communities in different countries. Thirty-nine collaborating centres from 26 countries of Europe, North America, and the Western Pacific collaborate in this project, using a standardized protocol and covering a population of approximately 10 million men and women aged 35-64. The WHO MONICA Project is directed by the Council of Principal Investigators and a Steering Committee, and it is managed by a Management Centre, Data Centre, Quality Control Centres (for event registration, ECG coding and lipid determinations) and Reference Centres (for optional studies). The MONICA methodology is increasingly used as a measurement tool for cardiovascular and non-communicable diseases prevention and control programmes by centres within and outside the project.

Adult↗
PubMed1988

Hypertension in developing countries.

Population surveys carried out since the 1970s in 15 developing countries including 23 population groups show that the prevalence of hypertension ranges from as low as 1% in some African countries to over 30% in Brazil. A trend analysis of the mortality statistics for 35-74 year-olds from 16 countries in which data are available shows a downward trend in mortality from hypertension and cerebrovascular diseases in most of these countries. In spite of the current low prevalence in some countries, the total number of hypertensives in the developing world is high, and a cost assessment of possible antihypertensive drug treatment indicates that developing countries cannot afford the same drug treatment levels as developed countries.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Incidence and fatality of acute myocardial infarction in the community.

The incidence rate for acute myocardial infarction (AMI; diagnostic categories "definite AMI" + "possible AMI" + "insufficient data"), defined as number of cases per 10 000 population (20 years and older) and year, are highest in Berlin, GDR (63 for males, 42 for females), intermediate in Budapest (46/22) and lowest in Warsaw (38/21). In Budapest and Warsaw younger and middle-aged men suffer more frequently from AMI than in Berlin, while in the GDR capital AMI is more frequent in older men and women. In younger and middle-aged groups AMI occurs in women ten years later than in men. After standardization for age, the AMI incidence rates are not significantly different between Budapest and Warsaw, but are significantly higher in Berlin, particularly for older women. The standardized fatality rates of AMI (percentage of cases died within 28 days from all cases) for males were equally high for Berlin and Budapest (each about 50%), but in Warsaw significantly lower (42%). For females they are significantly highest in Berlin (69%), intermediate in Budapest (57%) and significantly lowest in Warsaw (40%). This is due mainly to an excess fatality within the oldest groups in the Berlin Register.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

[Results of the myocardial infarct registers in the German Democratic Republic and their significance for the reduction of early mortality in myocardial infarce].

From preliminary results of the registers of myocardial infarction in the GDR follows that the definitive myocardial infarction (classification of the WHO) occurs in Berlin with an incidence rate of 17 cases per 10,000 inhabitants and annum, in Erfurt 10 and at Pasewalk 11 cases per 10,000 inhabitants and annum. More than three fourths of all cases of myocardial infarction appear outside the hospital. After three months the lethality is 60%, whereby the half of all cases of death appears already in the prehospital phase. More than 8 hours are passing before half of all patients with infarction are admitted into the hospital. The greatest retardation takes place between arrival of the physician and admission into the hospital. In the second place follows the interval onset of the infarction and demand of medical aid. An improvement of the early diagnostics and the transport of the patient as well as an adequate information and collaboration of the patient and his surroundings might contribute to a shortening of the prehospital phase and thus to a decrease of the early mortality in cases of myocardial infarction.

Germany, East↗