Advances in gerontology = Uspekhi gerontologii / Rossiĭskai͡a akademii͡a nauk, Gerontologicheskoe obshchestvo
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The condition of mucociliary system has been studied in 246 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. It is stated that chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases patients observe the significant variation of bronchial clearance's tempos, imbalance in the system of lipids' peroxide oxidation and antioxidant defense during aggravation and remission. Dysfunction of mucociliary transport is associated with the changes of mucilaginous elastic characteristics of tracheal-bronchial secretion that leads to progression of bronchial obstruction.
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The article presents the results of the research defining a number of features in development and course of some diseases typical for the veterans of the Great Patriotic war who got during the war craniocerebral traumas and wounds of various localization in compare with the patients of the same age who did not participate in the Great Patriotic war and did not have either brain traumas or wounds. Earlier development of ischemic heart disease, arterial hypertension, and cerebral atherosclerosis in veterans of Great Patriotic war has been found. The main intercurrent diseases in senior age persons have been distinguished. Some groups of psychopathological syndromes observed in persons of elderly and senile age and long-livers have been revealed.