[Prognosis of complications in cardiovascular diseases in flight personnel]

The flying personnel of different age groups, including those who continued their professional activity and those who were grounded because of cardiovascular diseases, were followed up for a long period of time. The prognosis value, sensitivity, specificity of various risk factors, symptoms and syndromes of cardiovascular diseases were investigated. Using mathematical prediction methods (Wald's sequential nonhomogeneous statistical test), a diagnostic table for predicting outcomes of cardiovascular diseases for the immediate 5 years was developed. The table was checked and tested on a control sample. The trial showed that the table provided a better accuracy of prediction than the traditional methods normally used in the expertise practice.