By Frederick H. Epstein

The achieve in lifestyles expectancy within the final onehundred years was once accomplished almost always in the course of the conquest of transmissible illnesses. lifestyles expectancy in center age has now not, although, greater substantially as the aid within the infectious illnesses was once counterbalanced by means of a rise within the non-transmissible stipulations, specially the cardiovascular problems. this case ends up in a superb loss in years of existence. there's each cause to think that alterations in day-by-day conduct of residing and development of environmental stipulations might reduce the corresponding mortality, morbidity and invalidity to a excessive measure. however, a rise in getting older and previous humans within the inhabitants leads necessarily to increasingly more handicapped people. however, it truly is to be anticipated that preventive measures may enhance the final country of overall healthiness within the inhabitants into complicated age. the current point of clinical wisdom with reference to the prevention of untimely heart illness, the most important element of the cardiovascular problems, justifies this confident review and serves as a version for the maintenance of future health at the person and inhabitants point. Literatur [1] McKEoWN, T.: Die Bedeutung der Medizin - Traum, Trugbild oder Nemesis. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am major, 1982. [2] StatistischesJahrbuch der Schweiz, herausgegeben yom Bundesamt fiir Statistik. Birkauser Verlag, Basel; Daten aus den Jahrbiichern fiir die entsprechenden Jahre entnommen. [3] Beviilkerungsbewegung in der Schweiz, Bundesamt fUr Statistik, Bern, 1984. [4] DoLI., R.: pursuits of preventive medication. In: the worth of Preventive medication.