Word: chazov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with its seclusion, an important factor in the Kremlin Hospital's location is its proximity--only a quarter-mile--from Moscow's $117 million U.S.S.R. Cardiology Research Center. The center's director is the eminent cardiologist Yevgeni Chazov, who is also a full member of the Soviet Central Committee. As director of the Ministry of Health's Fourth Department, Chazov is in charge of caring for the health of Soviet leaders...
...opened, when the Soviet Union played host to more than 5,000 physicians from around the globe, who were attending the Ninth World Congress of Cardiology. Says one impressed visitor, Harvard Heart Specialist Bernard Lown: "It is a cardiology city." With pardonable pride, the center's director, Yevgeni Chazov, declares, "I don't think there's another institute in the world that has as many functions...
...focus of the center's research is understanding the development of arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), a condition that can lead to strokes and heart attacks. Director Chazov and his team of scientists have developed several compounds to dissolve potentially fatal blood clots. One such compound is a more effective version of streptokinase, a drug increasingly used in the West to dissolve blood clots...
Using computer linkups with more than 1,000 statisticians in 20 cities, the center also is exploring possible risk factors in arteriosclerosis among Soviet citizens. Chazov's prediction about the outcome of the work by Soviet scientists and researchers worldwide: "We will solve the problem of arteriosclerosis in the next ten years. Once that is done, we will be able to prevent heart attacks and strokes almost entirely and raise the life span of human beings to 80 to 85 years...
...Harvard University Cardiologists Bernard Lown and James Muller and Tufts University Professor John Pastore-discussed such topics as the effects of a one-megaton bomb on a city, medical care for nuclear victims and the long-term effects of radiation fallout. The Soviets likewise avoided ideological confrontations. Said Yevgeni Chazov, one of President Leonid Brezhnev's physicians: "We have come here openly and honestly to tell the people about our movement, whose main objective is the preservation of life on earth...