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D S Silverberg

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Changes in blood pressure in the lying and sitting positions in normotensive, borderline and hypertensive subjects.

Blood pressure of hypertensive subjects reacts differently from that of borderline or normal subjects at rest in either sitting or lying positions. In the hypertensive group the diastolic pressure tends to rise more on consecutive measurements and the systolic blood pressure tends to fall less than in the two other groups. Similarly, on going from the lying to the sitting position, diastolic blood pressure of hypertensives rises less than that of normotensive or borderline hypertensive individuals. Thus, people with 'casual' hypertension differ in their reaction to rest and changes in body position in their reaction to rest and changes in body position with respect to normotensives or borderline hypertensives. This behavior could lead to labelling of subjects as 'normal' or 'hypertensive' depending on position and timing of the blood pressure measurement.

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Role of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal workers in the treatment of survivors of missile blasts.

Of the nine missiles that landed on the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa during the Persian Gulf war, three fell in heavily populated areas. As a result 192 people were sent to hospital and 1,663 (520 families) were left homeless. These were seen and evaluated near the site of the blast by a municipal multidisciplinary team and then sent to one of 15 hotels in and outside the city. There they were treated for acute post-traumatic stress disorder by a municipal health care team (general physicians, nurses, social workers and psychologists) and by psychiatrists from a local sick fund. Many acute and chronic medical problems, including attempted suicide, were also encountered. Community outreach programs aimed at high risk groups and several telephone counselling services were also instituted. We believe that it is crucial to train and provide a multidisciplinary team for handling the survivors of major disasters.

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