[Epidemiology of vascular disease]. / Epidemiológia cievnych chorôb.

In the European Union are vascular diseases the main cause of death, causing 1.9 millions of deaths per year. The highest mortality rates for cardiovascular diseases are found in Slovakia (data provided by National center health information, 2006). In 2007 died 29,289 (54.1%) persons from cardiovascular diseases, which means more than half of all deaths. From all men 47.8% died from cardiovascular diseases and from all women died 61.6% for cardiovascular disease. Coronary heart disease (55%) presents more than half causes of these deaths. Despite that mortality from cardiovascular disease has been continuously decreasing, in Central and East European countries it is still kept in high rates.

[Obesity and arterial hypertension]. / Obezita a artériová hypertenzia.

Obesity is an independent risk factor for the development and progression of hypertension, cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease. There is growing evidence that obesity and associated metabolic abnormalities may induce and accelerate renal complications in essential hypertension. The clustering of obesity and other features of the metabolic syndrome might have important implications for prevention, particularly with regard to whether interventions targeted at visceral obesity would have beneficial effects on cardiovascular and renal morbidity.

[Prevention and treatment of extremity vascular ischemic disease]. / Preventia a liecba koncatinovocievnej ischemickei choroby.

Extremitovascular ischemic disease (peripheral arterial disease of extremities - PAD) is an important manifestation of systemic atherosclerosis and other arterial diseases of vascular system. The lower the anklebrachial pressure index, the greater the risk of serious cardiovascular events (e.g., acute myocardial infarction, stroke). Prevention and treatment ofextremitovascular disease is discussed in this article.