[Angiologic screening of postal workers]

The authors present the results of an angiological survey conducted on 500 postal workers (374 males, 126 females, mean age 43.4 years). All subjects were interviewed about the history of cardiovascular diseases and risk factors. Clinical angiological examination, measurement of Doppler and oscillometric index, plethysmography (rest flow, peak flow, time to peak flow) were carried out. In 8.4% of the subjects (42 cases; 32 males, 10 females) peripheral arterial circulatory disturbance (PACD) was detected, seven of them (16.6%) had intermittent claudication. Frequency of smoking, hypertension and manual working proved to be significantly higher in the group of subjects with PACD than without PACD. Dorsalis pedis and/or tibialis posterior arteries were not palpable in seven (16.6%) of the patients with PACD, and in 25 (5.45%) of the subjects without PACD. The mean values of Doppler index, oscillometric index, peak flow, time to peak flow differed significantly between PACD "positive" and "negative" groups.