Interview with Robertas Krikstaponis, - Conscript (Soviet-Afghan War) -, Conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania, 25 August 2015 (RU)

Marked differences in antibiotic use and resistance between university hospitals in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Huddinge, Sweden.

Antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance was compared between Vilnius and Huddinge University hospitals. Drug use data were expressed in number of defined daily doses/100 bed-days; antimicrobial resistance were given as percentages of resistant isolates. Thirty-five and 48 different antibiotic drugs were used in Vilnius and Huddinge, respectively. The overall consumption of antibiotics was 1...

In this issue (August 2015)

Potential risk factors of food allergy in children: EuroPrevall project results in Vilnius, Lithuania

Objectives: In recent decades, the prevalence of allergic diseases, including food allergy, has been increasing. This is becoming an important health problem. Many risk factors of food allergy were identified recently, and many of them still are controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential risk factors of food allergy in child population following the methodology of the Eu...

Incidence and direct hospitalisation costs of hip fractures in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, in 2010

BACKGROUND Few epidemiological data on hip fractures were previously available in Lithuania. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence and hospital costs of hip fractures in Vilnius in 2010. METHODS Data were collected from the medical charts of all patients admitted to hospitals in Vilnius (population, 548,835) due to new low-energy trauma hip fracture, during 2010. The estimated c...

CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT IN LITHUANIA A. MASTAUSKAS Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, State Public Health Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

After the Chernobyl accident of 26 April, 1986, population dose assessment favours the view that the radiation risk of population effected by the early fallout would be different from that in regions contaminated later. Taking into account the short half-time of the most important radioactive iodine isotopes, thyroid disorders would be expected mainly to follow the early fallout distribution. A...