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Some data about the use of medicinal plants in Bulgarian traditional medicine in the Middle Ages and in modern times are presented and the results of 40-year-long experimental-pharmacological investigations on many medicinal plants used in Bulgarian traditional medicine are reviewed. In-depth discussion is presented on the investigations of garlic (Allium sativum L.), a plant widely used by Bulgarian people for treating different diseases. Data from studies on a large number of plants used for treatment of hypertension, infectious diseases and as diuretic and spasmolytic remedies are summarized.
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PMID:Bulgarian traditional medicine: a source of ideas for phytopharmacological investigations. 352 Jan 55

In addition to benefiting from public health programs for all Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives are eligible for health services from the Indian Health Service (IHS), U.S. Public Health Service. Indian Health Service provides comprehensive health services, including nutrition and dietetics, to American Indians and Alaska Natives living on or near federal Indian reservations or in traditional Indian territory, such as Oklahoma and Alaska. Dramatic improvements have occurred in the health of native Americans since IHS was transferred to the Public Health Service in 1955. Infant mortality rate, maternal deaths, and deaths related to infectious diseases have all decreased. Chronic diseases are now major causes of death. Nutritional factors contribute to at least 4 of the 10 leading causes of American Indian and Alaska Native deaths--heart disease, cancer, cirrhosis, and diabetes--and to the prevalence of overweight, obesity, hypertension, and dental caries. There is still incomplete information on nutritional status and present dietary patterns, nutritive values of native foods, and nutrition education knowledge of the population. Priority nutrition objectives have been developed to address those issues.
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PMID:Nutrition in American Indian health: past, present, and future. 353 63

Four classes of etiologic agents that cause human illness have been discovered. Sometimes members of two or more classes of agents cooperate to cause illness. Knowledge of etiology is necessary if a disease is to be eradicated. The leading causes of death in the United States have changed dramatically in the last century. Infection has been replaced by chronic illnesses of obscure etiology. Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in middle age and is the major obstacle to becoming old. There are numerous similarities between animals deficient in copper and people with ischemic heart disease. The most important of these similarities are glucose intolerance, hypercholesterolemia, abnormal electrocardiogram, hyperuricemia, and hypertension, as these characteristics are predictive of risk of ischemic heart disease. No other nutritional insult has produced these characteristics in experiments with animals; men fed diets low in copper have been found to have increased cholesterol, decreased glucose tolerance, and abnormal electrocardiograms. The process that results in ischemic heart disease is remarkably similar to that of copper deficiency. Links have been found between copper metabolism and several hypotheses on the origin of ischemic heart disease. Several aspects of the lipid hypothesis can be interpreted in terms of copper metabolism. More features of the etiology, pathogenesis, and pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease can be explained in terms of copper deficiency than can be explained by any other environmental insult.
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PMID:Ischemic heart disease. A major obstacle to becoming old. 358 Oct 19

Nineteen patients affected by Pseudotumor Cerebri and treated in the Neurosurgical Department of U.S.L. 10/D of Florence, are considered by Authors. Patients age varied from 4 to 14 years and their selection was made following Boddie, Banna and Bradley criteria published in 1974. Plain X Ray of the Skull was positive in 5 cases while ventriculography (when executed) were always normal. Quite normal were Angiography and CT scan. There were no pathological findings in CSF. The series of patients is considered analyzing somatic features, sex and possible aetiologic noxae. An interesting data is the presence of fever (39 degrees C) from 7 to 20 days before the onset of cranial hypertension. The possibility of blood-brain barrier alteration following infectious disease which causes an interstitial edema is considered and proposed by authors as a starting point for future research.
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PMID:[Pseudotumor cerebri: 19 cases in childhood]. 378 86

We have analyzed 1361 death certificates, during the year of 1982 in Uberlandia (Brazil), all deaths of residents and not deathbirths. In 47% the deaths were assisted by a physician and the cause of death proved. The first basic cause of death found was cardiovascular diseases (23.3%). The second, infectious diseases particularly Chagas' disease (14.9%) and the third traumatic lesions and poisonings (14.4%). Cerebrovascular diseases were the seventh basic cause of death (6.5%) but the third most related disease at the death certificates (12.7%). It is important to stress that the mortality index change considerably if we consider the disease as a basic cause of death or in more than one position in the death certificate. For instance in Uberlandia the index for CVD was 30 and 63/100.000 inab/year, respectively. The carriers of arterial hypertension presented CVD related at death certificate 10 times more than in the not carriers of hypertension.
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PMID:[Cerebrovascular disorders in Uberlandia: I. Mortality]. 380 Jun 87

The authors describe a method for evaluating arterial hypertension control among the unorganized population visiting polyclinics and organized population taken care of at the medical centers. The method was tried in the city of Chelyabinsk as applicable to a randomized population sample of a medical territorial district and to a randomized sample (8%) of the workers from 9 shops of the steel plant. The method lies in the study of the population health status (arterial hypertension prevalence and knowledge, treatment coverage and efficacy) and of the documentation available at the treatment and prophylactic institutions concerning arterial hypertension control (coverage, registration, scope of examinations, and so forth). It is shown that the method is unsophisticated and feasible for examination of the population and documentation requires 5 days. It is suggested that the method should be used in the study of the situation concerning arterial hypertension control as well as in the study of the problems in the control of other non-infectious diseases.
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PMID:[Express-method of assessing the status of hypertension control]. 382 87

Epidemiologic data on morbidity and mortality have established hypertension and its related diseases as posing a public health problem for the developing world.In the case of the Caribbean region, the increasing magnitude of the hypertension problem is complicated further by the region's fiscal crisis-its low cash availability for health expenditures and the concomitant experience in infectious diseases. Given these problems, it is reasoned that health education as an intervention approach is the only practical method to employ to address the problem of improved control of hypertension. The success of any such health education program will depend on, among other things, the framework used to guide the program, the population targeted on the basis of defined levels of arterial blood pressure and at-risk characteristics, and the specifics (ie, cultural, pharmacological, nonpharmacological, and motivational) of the message to be disseminated.
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PMID:Hypertension and health education intervention in the Caribbean: a public health appraisal. 388 53

The results of a population survey of blood pressure in the adult residents of two highland villages in the Asaro Valley, Papua New Guinea are reported. The survey was conducted in 1983 as part of a wider epidemiological investigation of non-communicable disease in Papua New Guinea. Response to the survey was 95%, and 308 subjects were examined. Population estimates of both systolic and diastolic blood pressures were low and there was a virtual absence of hypertension, as defined by internationally recommended criteria. There was no evidence of a rise in blood pressure with age, and the association between blood pressure and indices of obesity was weak. These findings are consistent with previous studies of blood pressure in traditional Papua New Guinean societies. The two villages differed with respect to their degree of modernisation. An unexpected finding was that in both sexes, both systolic and diastolic blood pressures were higher in the more traditional village. In each case, these differences were consistent across the three age groups examined, and they could not be explained by differences between the villages with respect to the indices of obesity. Analysis of variance showed that the higher blood pressures in the more traditional village were most unlikely to be due to chance (p less than 0.001). The explanation for this finding remains obscure.
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PMID:Blood pressure in Papua New Guinea: a survey of two highland villages in the Asaro Valley. 404 61

The longevity of a Swiss family with 867 descendants during 200 years from 1778-1980 is given in detail. The lifetime of 65 years or more was reached by 178 members, whilst in the years from 0-64 years 125 died and 564 are just today on life. 49% of the family members reached 70 years or more, all these born before 1910, in which period the average life-time at birth was between 49-52 years. The causes of death of the drop-out-cases (died before 65 years) are analyzed, happening mostly by infectious diseases, misfortune or exogenous risk factors. Essential is that no hereditary hypertension, metabolism or biochemical diseases, epilepsy was seen. Of the factors of longevity could be excluded climate of habitation occupation, had social or educational position. The hereditary longevity is broken only for some individuals by exogenous damage and can be seen as a privilege of this large family.
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PMID:[The longevity of a Swiss family during 200 years (author's transl)]. 612 41

Several observations are presented regarding the effects of depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) in the human, particularly in the nursing infant exposed to DMPA in breast milk. The observations are based on over 15 years of experience with the use of DMPA at the Maesariang Christian Hospital in Thailand. Records of all infants born at the hospital during 1977, 1978, and 1979 were divided into 4 groups: 1) those whose mothers received DMPA in the first 9 months postpartum; 2) those whose mothers received no DMPA at any time prior to 9 months after the birth of the baby in question; 3) those whose chromosomes had presumably been exposed to DMPA through administration to the mother at some time more than 3 months prior to conception; and 4) those who were inadvertently exposed to DMPA in utero. DMPA was given on a schedule of 150 mg intramuscularly every 3 months. Records of all women who had had at least 32 injections (8 years exposure) were compared with controls matched for age and duration of follow-up. Of the 101 in the DMPA group, 71 were located, interviewed, and examined. The 118 newborns whose mothers received DMPA prior to conception, 10 newborns exposed to DMPA in utero, and 436 controls showed no significant difference in either birth weights or incidence of birth defects. There appeared to be no significant alternation of immunity to infectious disease caused by breast milk containing DMPA. The possible exception to this was the subgroup whose mothers started at 2 days postpartum. This group had about 75% higher incidence of infectious disease visits in the 1st year than the other groups had. The women who received DMPA for 8 years or more gained more weight than controls but showed no cancer or increase in hypertension. The 118 newborns whose mothers had DMPA at some time prior to conception had 2 cases of major anomalies.
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PMID:Some effects of depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA): observations in the nursing infant and in the long-term user. 612 6


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