Cardiovascular pathology in Yakutia

Abstract

The article is devoted to cardiovascular pathology in one of the largest Russian regions - Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Noteworthy, the regional population lives in Arctic and Sub-arctic latitudes, where numerous large-scale epidemiologic and clinical cardiology studies have been performed. The author summarizes the results of 1985-1987 and 1999-2002 studies, demonstrating special features of cardiovascular risk factors, arterial hypertension, lipid profile in Yakutia native and migrant population.

Keywords

• coronary heart disease
• arterial hypertension
• epidemiology
• risk factors
• cholesterol
• male population
• mortality
• relative risk