The article discusses the peculiarities of loneliness among elderly people in Latvia. study involved 98 aged 65 to 86 living different social conditions: alone, with relatives, or a retirement home (Latvia). Psychometric characteristics UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3), adapted by author, are presented. survey results show views on old age and loneliness, feelings arising from relationships ot...

Material and methods 332 unselected patients with invasive breast cancer diagnosed between 20062011 were identified from Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga East University hospital databases and clinical data from medical records were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were tested for the two common founder mutations in BRCA1 (4153delA and 5382insC) in Latvia using a multiple...

In Latvia, livestock depredation by wolves has increased during the last two decades. Most of attacks occur in summer and autumn wolf hunting season. Use effective preventive measures Latvia is low, farmers primarily rely on as a reduction measure. The total numbers number affected sheep per year regional forest management units were analyzed relation to estimated density, extent culling, propo...

The increasing demand for energy, limited resources of fossil fuel, as well as pollution of the environment and changes in the global climate have raised more interest about the renewable resources. The use of renewable resources has become a very important partof European Union policy. The aim of the paper was to analyse reed resources in Latvia, its dynamics, volume and quality to produce cle...

To meet the needs of an increasing, heterogeneous, ageing population it is imperative to understand links between home and health. In Latvia, only limited research targeting the health and home situation of very old people is available. Consequently, the aim of this study was to describe how the home environment and aspects of health have changed over nine years between 2002 and 2011 for very o...

BACKGROUND Ten years have passed since Latvia became a Member State of the EU in 2004. As a result European regulations, including those related to rare diseases and orphan drugs, have been applied to Latvian legislative system. Orphan diseases have been recognized as a priority area for action in the public health system, though there are significant differences in the national healthcare serv...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of HCV (hepatitis C virus) infection in hemophilia patients in Latvia and to analyze association between natural clearance of HCV and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II genes. MATERIAL AND METHODS From 61 hemophilic patients participating in this study, 38 were adults and 23 were pediatric patients younger than 18 yea...

INTRODUCTION The quality of life is closely related with condition of oral health, influence of subjective factors on the whole human body and patients perception of their oral health. In spite of the fact that the most part of Latvian retirement age residents use low-quality dentures and assess them satisfactory, these patients often have problems associated with quality of dentures. The aim o...

BACKGROUND The mutational spectrum of mismatch repair (MMR) genes in the Baltic States has been reported to be quite similar to that in Poland; however during a country-wide study considerable differences in the population of Latvia were discovered. This study was undertaken to investigate the clinical and molecular features of HNPCC in Latvia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Family cancer histories we...

Abstract Pyrenophora tritici-repentis ( Ptr ), family Pleosporaceae, is a common wheat pathogen in all wheat-growing regions around the globe. It widely studied North America, South and Africa, while data about fungus genetic diversity Europe still insufficient. This study aimed to describe variation of morphological traits toxin production strains collected Latvia Belarus. Twenty-one isolates ...