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2. The large regional hospitals employ modern, expensive equipment
3. Hypertension detection team at work in India. A standard method of compiling the data from such surveys has been suggeseted by WHO, but it is a flexible system and can be modified to suit local conditions
4. Blood pressure being taken of a suspected case of hypertension
5. Routine medical check-ups include measuring blood pressure
6. Water composition is probably also related to cardiovascular diseases. At the University of Helsinki, the water analysis is performed with a x-ray emission spectrometer
7. Laboratory analyses are made immediately
8. In an intensive care unit, monitoring by electrocardiograph continues day and night
9. An electrocardiogram is registered. This person suffers from high blood pressure. Such patients should have their blood pressure checked regularly
10. A specially equipped ambulance linked by radio to the coronary care unit of a hospital. Energency treatment can be started immediatley
11. Many lives are being saved by this ambulance specially equipped to deal with severe heart attack cases in Northern Ireland. But prevention is better than cure; the risks stemming from high blood pressure can be considerably reduced by treatment, which can almost totally rule out heart failure and most strokes
12. Through an arm artery, a plastic catheter has been passed into the heart to reach a coronary artery. An injected opaque medium shows up on x-rays and enables the doctor to see the condition of the coronaries; picture 13150 shows close-up of x-rays screen
13. "In this age of machinery and nuclear energy..." Heart disease: our photo shows a delicate operation in progress, carried out by Prof. de Watteville of the University of Geneva
14. Residents of a Bombay suburb gather in the courtyard for a routine checkup during a community survey on high blood pressure
15. A woman "paramedic" tests the tetanus case for serum hypersensitivity before starting the emergency treatment that will save her life
16. One of the blood sampling techniques during an epidemiological survey in Togo
17. Equipment for studying the respiratory and cardiovascular systems
18. The kiss of life: practical instruction for a village health worker in Samoa
19. Rat catching is part of the routine activities of the port authorities
20. A "barefoot doctor" from the Hong Shi production brigade, in northern China checks on the health of a mother and her chil in their home. When there is a choice between ancient herbal remedies and "Western" ones, many patients prefer traditional medicine
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