[Effect of therapeutic complexes using contrast baths, ultrasound and electric stimulation on anthropometric indicators and carbohydrate metabolism in patients with exogenous-constitutional obesity]. / Vliianie lechebnykh kompleksov s primeneniem kontrastnykh vann, ul'trazvuka i élektrostimuliatsii na pokazateli antropometrii i uglevodnyi obmen u bol'nykh s ékzogenno-konstitutsional'nym ozhireniem.

Contrast baths proved effective in reducing obesity as they influence body weight index, waist and hip circumferences, improve carbohydrate metabolism, lower insulin resistance. Ultrasound plus contrast baths complex is more effective in hynoid obesity while contrast baths plus electrostimulation with SMC is good in abdominal obesity.

[The effect of contrast baths on the hemostatic function of patients with ischemic heart disease]. / Vliianie kontrastnykh vann na funktsional'noe sostoianie gemostaza u bol'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa.

Contrast baths effects on hemostasis were studied in 72 patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and stable angina pectoris. Hemostasis was assessed by recalcification time, blood plasma tolerance to heparin, fibrinolytic activity, functional activity of antithrombin, soluble fibrin-monomeric complex, platelet count and aggregation. The results were compared to those in patients exposed to laser irradiation. Hydrotherapy with contrast baths was hemostatically effective in 70.9% of patients. Blood coagulation and platelet aggregation improved, the risk of intravascular microthrombogenesis diminished. Contrast baths had more pronounced beneficial effects on coagulation in ischemic heart disease of NYHA functional class II.

[The UHF therapy of hypertension patients]. / SVCh-terapiia bol'nykh gipertonicheskoi bolezn'iu.

Ninety-three patients with stages I-II essential hypertension treated with microwave electromagnetic fields (460 MHz) with collar exposure were studied. Microwave therapy was found to produce an antihypertensive effect in 74%, chiefly by lowering the increased cardiac output, to improve blood pressure responses to exercises, to make catecholamine excretion normal and coronary and cerebral circulation better.

[The effect of contrast baths on physical work capacity and autonomic regulation in hypertension patients]. / Vliianie kontrastnykh vann na fizicheskuiu rabotosposobnost' i vegetativnuiu reguliatsiiu bol'nykh gipertonicheskoi bolezn'iu.

Examining the impact of contrast baths (CB) having temperatures of 38-40 and 25-26 degrees C on the physical fitness, blood pressures, and autonomic regulatory parameters of patients with Stages I and II hypertensive disease has demonstrated that CB exerts a hypotensive effect, reduces the tonicity of the sympathetic nervous system, enhances physical fitness and saves oxygen for cardiac performance. The outcomes remained for 3-12 months. The findings provide evidence for that CB is a pathogenetic and effective hydrotherapeutic technique for patients with Stages I and II hypertensive disease. CB was ascertained to have a more pronounced action on the tonicity of the sympathetic nervous system, when it ends with a cool bath (25-26 degrees C), so it is mostly indicated for hypertensives with severe hypersympathicotonia.

[Sanatorium-health resort care in the system of medical service to the population exposed to radiation as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station]. / Sanatorno-kurortnaia pomoshch' v sisteme meditsinskogo obsluzhivaniia naseleniia, podvergshegosia vozdeistviiu radiatsii vsledstvie avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES.

The analysis of the reports made by 77 local medical administrations in the Russian Federation indicates unsatisfactory employment of sanatorium facilities for improving health of radiation-exposed population. Health resorts and sanatoria of the Russian Middle Zone should extend care for those who suffer from the Chernobyl accident aftereffects.

[The blood antioxidant system in patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing laser therapy]. / Sostoianie antioksidantnoi sistemy krovi bol'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa pri lazeroterapii.

Catalyse activity and lipid peroxidation were studied in the sera of patients with coronary heart disease who had been exposed to red and infrared low-energy laser radiation (LLR) applied to the skin projections of the heart and its reflexogenic areas. It was found that the optimal normalizing effect occurred with the red band of LLR applied in the rehabilitative period to patients with prior myocardial infarction concurrent with hypertensive disease and stable angina of functional classes I and II. In functional class III stable angina, infrared LLR had advantages over the red on when they acted on the blood antioxidative system.

[Use of a low-frequency magnetic field in the combined treatment of middle-aged and elderly patients with ischemic heart disease and osteochondrosis of the cervico-thoracic spine]. / Primenenie nizkochastotnogo magnitnogo polia v kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa i osteokhondrozom sheino-grudnogo otdela pozvonochnika v pozhilom i starcheskom vozraste.

The study performed by the authors into the effect of low-frequency magnetic field on coronary heart disease, cervical and thoracic osteochondrosis arising in senile and presenile patients showed the treatment to promote improvement of the heart autonomic regulation and attenuation of ischemic and vertebrogenic pain, to augment response to antiarrhythmic treatment in coronary patients with extrasystoles, to compensate for negatively inotropic effect of propranolol hydrochloride, to increase exercise tolerance.