Vol 29, No 4 (2018)

The paper shows the role of obesity in the progression of comorbid cardiorespiratory disease and in the increased risk of not only cardiopulmonary catastrophes, but also serious mental disorders up to severe dementia.

The paper considers current neuropsychological ideas about the origin of dreams. It discusses the relationship between dreams and distinct phases of sleeр. The data on the formation of sleeр and dreams at certain stages of ontogenesis are analyzed. There is information on the clinical, psychological, and biological rationales for the importance of dreams, their role in the natural process of mental functioning. The author touches upon the issues of impaired dream formation in the presence of some pathological conditions.

The paper emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary cooperation of dermatologists and psychiatrists in the treatment of patients with this group of mental disorders as self-destructive dermatoses.

The data of a cross-sectional epidemiological study demonstrate that able-bodied men with a high level of trait anxiety and somatic risk factors have a high need for prevention of coronary heart disease.

Combination treatment using the Russian drug levocarnitine (Elcar), which was performed in 40 senile male patients with dyscirculatory encephalopathy and cardiocerebral syndrome, proved to be more effective (the difference were statistically significant) than the commonly used treatment with vasodilator and nootropic drugs.

The paper evaluates the efficiency of magnetic therapy at different stages of chronic low back pain in the presence of lumbar osteochondrosis.

The paper describes current medical rehabilitation techniques that can restore sexual function in women who have undergone a treatment cycle for breast cancer.

The authors have evaluated the efficiency of sanatorium-and-spa treatment in the general medical care program for patients with hypertension and risk factors for chronic kidney disease in conjunction with cognitive impairment.

Astrakhan rickettsial fever is an acute transmissible, natural focal disease caused by Rickettsia. With a growth of tourism in recent years, the disease has begun to be registered not only in the lower reaches of the Volga River, but also in other areas of the Russian Federation; its clinical symptoms have changed -complications and fatal outcomes have appeared. This requires the higher vigilance of infectiologists and general practitioners.

To provide objective assessments of the activities of a municipal outpatient urological care service in Moscow, a system approach and system analysis were used to develop and test a stepwise methodology for studying the development of the system, i.e. a comprehensive stepwise analysis of problems in the improvement of the activities of outpatient facilities providing urological care was carried out.