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73 welders were examined, who weld in an assembly room of a machine factory, mainly by an electric arc. In anamneses 60% of persons under examination notified of coughing, expectorating, dyspnoea during work, and frequent acute rhinitis. Clinical symptoms of respiratory tract disease, resulting from welding, were found in 10% of welders. Simple bronchitis, resistant bronchitis with pulmonary emphysema, pleural adhesions were diagnosed. In one case fibronodular tuberculosis was found (1%). In 8% of workers, aged 40--50, a dynamic arterial hypertension and radiological symptoms of aortosclerosis were found. 5% welders had granulocytopenia. Disturbances of the examined systems occurred in factory welders with duration of employment above 10 years.
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PMID:[Health conditions of a group of factory arc welders]. 68 52

A screening study for coronary disease, chronical bronchitis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, peripheral circulatory disturbance and overweight is described. 2429 persons aged over 40 years and working in two factories were studied. Typical laboratory tests, a short standardised examination by a physician and a questionnaire were used. In a 10 per cent sample the questionnaire was repeated by an interview and the serum was sent to the laboratory not only by mail, but also by a special car transport in a cooled transport box. The results of the laboratory tests are presend according to age, sex and factory. The family doctor had to be informed in nearly 70 per cent of the men and about 60 per cent of the women because of at least one suspicious symptom or sign. There was a pathological value of glucose in the urine in 14.7 per cent, a rise of glucose in the blood (above 113 mg per cent) in 5.7 per cent, of triglicerides (above 181 mg per cent) in 12.6 per cent, of cholesterol (above 264 mg per cent) in 15.4 per cent, of uric acid (male above 7.7 mg per cent, female above 7.1 mg per cent) in 6.8 per cent, of creatinine (above 1.3 mg per cent) in 6.4 per cent and the presence of albumin in urine in 2.2 per cent of the cases.
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PMID:[Preventive screening in two factories. I. Methods and results (author's transl)]. 100 75

By screening examinations of 1,287 persons fit to work from 9 professions altogether 208 persons of risk were selected who were classified into a group of managers and into a group of workers who were professionally increasedly exposed or demanded and who were-in comparison to a control group-comprehensively after-examined, including complex ergometry. The managers have an increased risk of health by hypertension and cardial ischaemia and at the same time an unfavourable condition. The increasedly exposed or demanded workers have an increased risk by hypertension and bronchitis despite favourable condition. The results confirm the necessity of a prevention of persons from professional and dispositional risk of health according to a graduated health control programme.
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PMID:[70. Performance diagnostic studies for the determination of the condition and health risks of managers in comparison with other exposed and inexposed professional workers]. 121 45

A study of the immune and fibrinolytic systems of the body in 216 patients with different clinical forms of atherosclerosis (exertion and rest stenocardia, arrhythmias, atherosclerotic hypertension), chronic obstructive bronchitis revealed that the antiatherogenous effect of chronic obstructive bronchitis is predetermined on the one side by an increased function of the monocytic-macrophagal link of immunity and on the other by activation of the fibrinolysis system.
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PMID:[The role of the immune and fibrinolytic systems in the inhibition of atherogenesis in chronic obstructive bronchitis]. 144 83

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are useful first-line drugs in the therapy of mild and moderate hypertension. Adverse reactions to this drug class are rarely serious. Hypotension, cough, rash, and taste disturbance are uncommon; reduced glomerular filtration and hyperkalemia occur infrequently; angioedema is rare and neutropenia is extremely rare. Quinapril is a new ACE inhibitor that is converted to biologically active quinaprilat in the liver. This ACE inhibitor has a rapid onset of action and inhibits local tissue converting enzyme systems in kidney, heart, and brain, as well as in the circulating renin-angiotensin system. Clinically significant adverse effects of quinapril occur at low rates. In 1,771 patients receiving quinapril, the reported incidence of the first occurrence of orthostatic hypotension was comparable to that seen in patients receiving placebo. In other studies, headache was reported by up to 4.7% of patients receiving quinapril, which is comparable to reported incidences of headache in patients receiving other ACE inhibitors. Other adverse events reported at rates greater than 1% include cough with associated rhinitis and bronchitis, dizziness, and somnolence. Such adverse events have only rarely led to the withdrawal of patients from clinical studies of quinapril.
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PMID:Adverse effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in antihypertensive therapy with focus on quinapril. 154 39

The authors report the case of a 3-month-old infant with a history of interventricular septal defect with pulmonary arterial hypertension. This child had pulmonary symptomatology (dyspnea, recurrent bronchitis, acute attacks of asphyxia) which it was possible to link to a retrotracheal left pulmonary artery by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Classical investigations (upper GI barium series and chest X-ray) were suggestive of a bronchogenic cyst type abnormal pulmonary structure. Angiography confirmed the MRI diagnosis. In this case the infant also had tracheal lesions (lower tracheal hypoplasia) which required further evaluation by fibroscopy and bronchography. Thus MRI shows itself to be a useful investigation in the study of basic vascular abnormalities.
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PMID:[Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of retrotracheal pulmonary artery]. 202 7

Non-drinkers and heavy drinkers tend to have higher total and cardiovascular mortality rates than light or moderate drinkers. The finding is not disputed; it is the interpretation of this U-shaped curve that is controversial, and in particular the belief that light and moderate drinking protects against coronary heart disease. The British Regional Heart Study of middle-aged British men has shown that 70% of non-drinkers are ex-drinkers. Those ex-drinkers have high rates of doctor-diagnosed illnesses including heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and bronchitis as well as high prevalence rates of measured hypertension, obesity, current smoking and regular medical treatment. Over a five-year period men who were diagnosed as having heart disease, had multiple diagnoses or were put on regular medication had an increased likelihood of becoming non-drinkers or occasional drinkers. The study suggests a downward drift from heavy and moderate drinking towards non-drinking under the influence of accumulating ill health. The data strongly suggest that the observed alcohol-mortality relationships in prospective studies are produced by symptoms and disease present at the time of screening, and by the prior movement of men with such disorders into non-drinking or occasional drinking categories. The concept of a protective effect on mortality which ignores the dynamic relationship between ill health and drinking behaviour is likely to be ill-founded. A review of the major prospective studies reveals an inadequate exploration of the nature of non-drinkers, who are clearly unsuitable for use as a baseline in studies of the effects of alcohol on health.
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PMID:Alcohol and mortality: a review of prospective studies. 205 31

To contribute more comprehensive information about the characteristics of asthma, this article analyzed patients served by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Asthma Program. Their physicians rated one fifth of these patients as having "severe" asthma with the remainder about equally divided between "moderate" and "mild". One in two first received a diagnosis of asthma ten or more years previously. Common comorbidities were hypertension, obesity, rhinitis, bronchitis, sinusitis, and arthritis. One half had visited an emergency room or been hospitalized for asthma in the past year. Inhaled bronchodilators and continuous theophylline were the most commonly prescribed medications. Side effects, especially tachycardia and insomnia, were common and almost exclusively associated with theophylline or corticosteroid therapy. Spirometric assessment showed chronic airflow obstruction in those with more severe asthma. Prevalence of respiratory symptoms, intensity of medication regimen, incidence of side effects, and health care utilization increased as asthma severity increased.
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PMID:Characteristics and correlates of asthma in a university clinic population. 220 37

Acute course and long-term regimens of depin-E administration were evaluated clinically and pharmacologically in 50 patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) and chronic cor pulmonale (CCP). The drug has three mechanisms of action: arteriolovenodilating, bronchodilating, direct pulmonary vascular. Therapeutic effect was achieved in 80% and 60% of COB and CCP patients, respectively. No response was demonstrated for patients with severe cardiac failure. Depin-E can be recommended for prophylaxis and treatment of CCP, to arrest hypertension crises in lesser circulation, to improve pulmonary circulation, central hemodynamics, exercise tolerance.
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PMID:[Effectiveness of depin-E in patients with chronic bronchitis]. 221 46

Radiocardiography and rheography of the pulmonary artery were used to examine impairments in hemodynamics and contractile function of the right ventricle in 40 patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis complicated with persistent hypertension. Right ventricular hemodynamic and contractile impairments were shown to be not equivalent with similar clinical and functional signs of pulmonary hypertension. This fact indicates that the use of special techniques is of practical value in the determination of right ventricular hemodynamics and myocardial contractility in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis. Radiocardiography and rheography of the pulmonary artery are sufficiently reliable noninvasive techniques for examining the hemodynamics and contractile function of the right ventricular myocardium.
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PMID:[Radiocardiography and rheography of the pulmonary artery in the diagnosis of disorders of hemodynamics and right-ventricular contractility in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis]. 223 68


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