[Complication rate under passive and active cure treatment of cardio-circulatory patients (author's transl)]

A comparison between the rate of complications under preferably passive balneotherapeutic cure treatment in 1967 and under preferably active physical training treatment in 1972 gave no significant difference. In spite of an increasing portion of heart patients the complication rate in the cardio-circulatory system under active treatment showed a slight decreasing tendency. On the contrary there were found differences when comparing the temporal frequency distribution of complications under cure treatment of both years. Indeed both years exhibited the known circaseptan periodicity of cure treatment, the temporal frequency distribution of the maxima and the minima, however, showed the characteristic pattern of reactive periods not but under conventional passive treatment in 1967. By reason of these findings the higher load of modern physical training treatment is supposed to strengthen the influence of interindividual differences in the autonomous reagibility, and thus differences from the conventional mode of cure treatment in the first place appear in the temporal distribution of complications.