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Health Poles 2003

If we do not change the current way of life, almost half of us will die prematurely from heart disease - a new alarming data from the first detailed examination of the health status of Poles

For Polish women do not count either muscular or broad shoulders - research of professor John Strzalka from the Poznan University shows that our ladies prefer sensitive guys, even - rookies. Fashion? Rather, the need to, because as shown by recent studies, the Poles are essentially frail and sickly people, threatened heart attack and strokes. And to think that 10 years ago, Professor. Witold Zatonsky Cancer Center spoke about the "Miracle on the Vistula river health." When we came into the world half a century of communism, on our tables there are fruits and vegetables, including those exotic. We switched from butter and lard oil and margarine. And new drugs and new equipment, allowing for increasingly complex operations. Both made me in the last decade, life expectancy increased for men by four years and about three - in women.


Since 1991 started to fall in the number of dying from cardiovascular problems, particularly young people, against fifty. At the same time in Europe, in almost every country, the heart was the cause of death every second. European cardiologists admired Polish phenomenon. Unfortunately, the card is reversed.
We found ourselves in Europe - more than half of Poles are now obese, almost one in three has a high blood pressure, and nearly 6 percent diabetes.

Research conducted by specialists from the Medical University of Gdansk provide alarming data on the state of our health. The first to present a unique report to reach beyond the statistics. It is a scientific simulation of the risks that lie in wait for us.
On the basis of bio-chemical analysis of blood, blood pressure and weight, performed in three thousand people, doctors counted how many of us may die of heart. If nothing is done, which means: if we will continue to invisible and voracious, within the next ten years to a heart attack ill 740 thousand Poles aged 30-70 years, and nearly half a million will have a stroke.

Most at risk are middle-aged men: 35-55-year-old.
It is very scary that so much depends on us alone - enough to move a little more, eat less and healthier, and half of the group convicted of a heart attack or stroke would be saved.


The study tested NATPOL III PLUS 3 thousand adult Poles, were randomly selected and representative for the whole country. The oldest participant was 95 years, the youngest - 18 The study recruited 149 nurses from across the Polish, in which all participants have undertaken a detailed questionnaire. Asked about lifestyle, family history, medications, and knowledge of prevention. Pressure measured, weighed, measured waist circumference.
Extracted the blood, examine cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose, and modern risk factors such as homocysteine and C-reactive protein, high levels of these substances may be a harbinger of atherosclerosis in the arteries of the heart and brain, which over time can lead to heart attack and stroke.

NATPOL III Plus is the third survey of hypertension among Poles (hence the name III, and the whole name is an acronym for: To evaluate the prevalence of hypertension in Poland plus lipid disorders and diabetes). The first study, the consultant was the then head of the Department of Hypertension and Diabetes in Gdansk AM prof. Barbara Krupa-Wojciechowska, conducted in 1994, was based only on the interview, the second of 1997 participants have measured the pressure. Last year's survey was exceptional. Such detailed analysis was carried out in Poland for the first time. For the first time in the work of the medical examination took Part Company on a daily audit opinion.

Most of the conferences came from one of the Pol-MONICA study, conducted in the 80s and 90 the last century in two cities: Tarnobrzeg and Warsaw in Praga. Often, professionals also benefit from the estimates made on the basis of comparisons with results obtained from doctors in Europe and the United States. Not much was missing, and there would be nothing came out of research Gdansk doctors. First, people were afraid of anthrax and the mail list with an invitation to the test they threw into the trash. Then the scandal broke out in the Lodz emergency, where doctors were accused of intentionally killing patients Pavulon and so people would not visit any doctors or nurses. In one village they had to ask for help of the mayor and the priest. Men of the place chased the nurses away, calling them witches.

In winter, the car transporting the blood sample in a several grzęzł drift of snow which had covered the road including in the Bieszczady Mountains. In June, the heat due to a ban on movement of trucks and the blood of nearly every wouldn’t delivered in time to the laboratory, would give only then to pour. Study coordinators had to intervene in the Police Headquarters.

Fortunately, it all somehow ended successfully. Bad, and it is very, proved to be only the results. Kg comes to us, and it is almost as fast as the fluffy shapes famous Americans.
Today 53 percent Poles, more than 15 million, are obese or overweight. Five years ago these people were 51.5 percent an increase of almost half a million fewer.

- Formerly it was thought that the obese are responsible for 60 percent of our genes.
Today we know that it is primarily dependent on ourselves, whether we're fat. Because the pool of genes in the last 100 years has not changed, and we put on weight rapidly - says Dr. Zofia Babinska from the Department of Hypertension and Diabetology. Worse still, the majority of Poles are convinced that this does not affect them. Meanwhile, calculated that in 2230 years, almost all the Poles, like other Europeans and Americans, will have overweight.
Autor: NEWSEEK 2.03.2003