[The demand for the main cardiovascular preparations in the city of Frunze].

The structure of consumption and need in cardiovascular drugs were studied in a hospital and in the Kirghiz Scientific Research Institute of Cardiology according to a scheme developed in the USSR Cardiology Research Center. Use of cardiovascular drugs was studied with respect to optimal results of therapy in 361 patients with main cardiac pathology (ischemic heart disease, essential hypertension and their combination) who had received 1125 courses of drug treatment. The prescriptions were analysed according to their intensity, regularity and optimal effect. The authors assessed provision of cardiological patients of Frunze with drugs and gave recommendations on its improvement, in particular, satisfaction of need in some active drugs (prolonged nitrates, calcium antagonists, cardiac glycosides).