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R Duda

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1977

Excess mortality--influenza epidemiological surveillance indicator.

Observations on "excess mortality" from influenza, carried out in the Moldavia area between 1957 and 1973, are presented in the paper. They made it possible to assess in time and space as well as in severity the knowledge on influenza epidemics. "Excess mortality" proved to be a valuable indicator of increase in influenza mortality, especially, on the occurrence of big epidemics the existence of which was closely related to the appearance of new types and variants of influenza viruses. Though "excess mortality" showed the highest values when death from acute pneumopathies recorded in the preepidemic and postepidemic periods was included in the calculation, it also pointed to the strong effect of influenza on all causes of death, especially chronic diseases of the respiratory and cardio-vascular systems.

Disease Outbreaks↗
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[Evaluation of morbidity through dental decay in students by school stomatologic monitoring].

Starting from the fact that stomatologic dispensarization in schools is the best method for evaluating morbidity by bucco-dental disorders in students, the authors present the results of a longitudinal study which consisted in the permanent monitoring of 48 students for a period of 8 years (1980-1988). The children were from the I-st to the VIII-th class. It is stressed that the most relevant indexes of morbidity are those of incidence (for the evaluation of the present potential of developing a disorder), and that of severity (for the assessment of the morbidity status). The authors intend to take up again this study, with the same methodology, in a group of students to which a local fluorination procedure was applied from the I-st scholar cycle.

Adolescent↗
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[Epidemiology of essential arterial hypertension in collectives of schoolchildren. The prevalence of blood pressure changes].

7,917 pupils in schools, between 10-19 years old, of both sexes, were investigated within an epidemiologic screening, performed in the school milieu, for detecting the prevalence of some risk factors (RF) and of the AT modifications with a view to work out the programmes for the essential arterial hypertension (EAHT) primary prevention. 84.4% of all the pupils in the Vth--VIIIth forms and 93.9 pupils in the IXth--XIIth forms were included in the screening. 422 cases of labile arterial hypertension (LAHT) (5.1%) and 457 of benign arterial hypertension (BATH) (54%) were found. In the children with normal arterial hypertension (NAHT) the following were recorded: 46.5% increases only of the diastolic tension: 44.0% of the systolic-diastolic and 7.1% of the systolic tension respectively. Although present, the differences between the LAHT and BAHT prevalence in the gymnasiums (4.3% and 5.4%) and lyceums (5.5% and 6.4%) are not significant and might be functions of: age, sex, psychomotor development, structure of the respective collectivities, the momentary psychoemotional reactions, lability of the blood pressure, specific to the childhood, several screening difficulties etc. The observations made on the prevalence of the growth of the AT values were correlated with the occurrence at some significant levels of the RF, suggesting the measures to be taken for the steady improvement of the primary and secondary prophylaxis of EAHT in schools.

Adolescent↗