[Organization of the control of the cardiovascular diseases in the Lithuanian SSR].

Experience in elaborating and introducing into medical practice the elements of a unified consecutive system of ischemic heart disease control was developed in Kaunas. This system includes epidemiological detection of risk factors, primary prevention, and rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction and their subsequent regular medical surveillance. According to the system, the methods of primary and secondard prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation are unified and standardized and a unified system of the registration and hospitalization of cardiological patients is introduced in Kaunas. Mathematical processing of the data was carried out by a computer. Methodical material has been elaborated and suggested for practical medicine.