[The status and outlook of dispensary care for patients with cardiovascular diseases].

On the basis of the surveys carried out the authors showed inferior quality and low efficiency of dispensarization of patients with cardiovascular diseases, which fact is traceable back to obsolete criteria for assessment of physicians' preventive activities, lack of association between the results on securing dispensarization and economic parameters, and shortage of medical experts in preventive cardiology. It is necessary that the established priorities of activities in administration of prophylaxis of cardiovascular diseases and complications from these be reconsidered, cerebrovascular pathology in the presence of arterial hypertension and without it given more importance, multicenter programmes on prophylaxis of chronic non communicable diseases developed and inaugurated, with a possibility of these being included into international projects.