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Twenty-eight Turkish refugees living in Denmark were examined by the authors in the period 1984-85. Fourteen of the persons alleged having been tortured in Turkey during the period 1980-83. The remaining 14 persons reported that they had not been tortured and thus acted as controls. All the testimonies were found valid according to a method previously used by us. The most common forms of violence reported were blows and electrical torture. Blindfolding, solitary confinement and threats were also frequent. At the time of examination the main mental complaints were sleep disturbances with nightmares and impaired memory. Emotional lability and concentration disturbances were also frequent. Physically the torture victims suffered from headache, various cardio-pulmonary and muscular pains, dyspepsia and reading disturbances. All reported that they had been healthy before torture. The clinical examination revealed only a few signs related to torture, although examples of minimal scars, fractured or missing teeth, discrete neurological disorders and mental depression were found. The 14 controls had significantly fewer complaints, and almost no abnormalities were found during the clinical examination. The present study clearly demonstrates the traumatic effects of torture.
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PMID:Sequelae to torture. A controlled study of torture victims living in exile. 333 88

The forward-shift prevention and treatment strategy is the current trend of the development of clinical medicine. As hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, it is curtail to pay attention to the prevention and treatment of prehypertension. Pre-hypertension refers to the blood pressure value between the normal blood pressure and high blood pressure, which easily develops into hypertension with complications. In recent years, pre-hypertension has attracted attentions both at home and abroad. The traditional Chinese medicinal theory of "preventive treatment of disease" shows its unique advantages in preventing and treating pre-hypertension and high blood pressure. With the socio-economic development and the changes in lifestyle, traditional pathogenetic theories have no longer kept pace with the occurrence regularity of modern high blood pressure and pre-hypertension. Therefore, the in-depth study on the pathogenesis of pre-hypertension is of great significance in the guidance of clinical prevention and treatment. It is believed that the etiologies of pre-hypertension are related to improper diet, sedentariness and emotional instability. In other words, stasis in six forms such as qi stagnation, dyspepsia, damp obstruction, phlegm stasis, blood stasis and fire stagnation is an crucial pathogenesis of pre-hypertension. Consequently, on the basis of the traditional Chinese medicinal theory of "preventive treatment of disease", the combination of the treatment based on syndrome differentiation and the correspondence of prescriptions and the syndromes in treating pre-hypertension is worth clinically promoting and applying.
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PMID:[Study on pathogenesis and treatment of pre-hypertension in traditional Chinese medicine]. 2419 85