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Sinn her election to the Houm In 1972, the political career of
' the Voice"-as some of Rep. Barbara C Jordan's colleagues have
dubbed her-has been meteoric. Ms, Jordan, the first black
congressperson elected from the deep South, was catapeulted to
national prominence by her freshman-term performance during
the House Judiciary Committee's televised impeachment hearings
in 1974. Here the Texas Democrat deans her glass during a
committee hearing in Washington last week. UPI
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The Sickle Cell Anemia
'Foundation, Lee Elder
Scholarship Fund, and the
American Cancer Society will
benefit from the Bondu's
Bon-Adventure Eastern Airlines
Golf Tournament scheduled for
February 17-21, at Walt Disney
World.
The entire proceeds from the
five-day closest-io-the-hole
contest goes to the Orlando
Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority for their National
Sickle Cell Anemia Fund, the
participants share in the
"Patron's Division" of the
Doral-Eastertf Open Tournament
for the benefit of the American
Cancer Drive and a donation is
made to the Lee Elder.
Scholarship Fund, each year.
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Miller Brewing Company,
Pedersen Golf Equipment
Company and the Philip Morris
Company, the tournament
already has over 200 golfers and
guests registered for'this 90-hole,
shot-gun type, golfing event.
Two buffets, a Wild West
Show, a ' Roasting" of two-time
winner of the "Best Singer in the
World Award, Joe Williams,
and a Formal Trophy Awards
Ball will make the evening hours
enjoyable.
The three golf courses of Walt
Disney World will be the site of
a 5-day putting contest for
golfers; long drive and
closest-to-the-hole contests;
penalty prizes for the number of
balls in the water and each
stroke in the sand, plus a putting
contest for non-golfers which
will make for a "swinging-good"
time. ' -
SUMMIT, N. J. - A
physician anywhere in the U.
S. will soon be able to pick up
his telephone, dial a tool-free
number which will connect
him with a computer in New
Jersey, and within seconds tell
a patient sitting in his office his
probable rish of developing
cardiovascular disease in the
next eight years.
Called ' CARDIO-DIAL,'
the computerized system was
developed by C1BA
Pharmaceutical Company as an
aid to physicians in treating
patients with high bipod
pressure and other risk factors
of heart disease who need to
understand the seriousness of
their condition. High blood
pressure, for example, if left
untreated, can result in
complications such as stroke,
heart failure, and other
cardiovascular events.
CARDIO-DIAL was
prepared in cooperation with
the National High Blook
Pressure Education Program,
National Heart and Lung
Institute, National Institutes of
Health.
"One of CARDIO-DIAUs
major values is its potential for
educating and motivating
patients to stay on therapy,"
according to Marvin Moser,
M.D., Senior Medical
Consultant to the National
High Blood Pressure Education
. Program.
"In some clinics over ,40
percent of the, patients drop
out of treatment; one of the
most common reasons has been '
that they are unaware of the
risk they face in untreated
hypertension."
"CARDIO-DIAL is a
positive step toward helping to
solve one of the major
unsolved problems in the
treatment of high blood
pressure," he observed. He
defined this as the failure of
patients and tome physicians
to recognize the significance of
risk factors and the importance
of eliminating them.
"Hypertension is the risk
factor of heart disease and
strokes where therapy is
available and proof exists that
continuous long term
treatment is beneficial in
delaying or preventing these
complications," he said.
As of February, the
company is making
CARDIO-DIAL available to
physicians nationally, without
charge, as a public service.
CARDIO-DIAL, an
acronym for "Cardiovascular
Disease Risk-Direct
Information Access Line," is
designed to supply information
which provides an estimate of a
patient's susceptibility to
cardiovascular problems.
The "risk" analysis" supplied
by CARDIO-DIAL is based on
data from the well-known
Framingham Study, an
extensive investigation of
cardiovascular disease begun 25
years ago in Massachusetts.
Comparisons with other studies
in this country tend to
corroborate the Framingham
findings.
Using .the data from the
Framingham Study,
CARDIO-DIAL can generate
almost nine million individual
''risk" combinations.
During a normal office visit,
the physician fills out a form
for each patient, noting the
patient's sex, age, whether or
not he smokes cigarettes, and
his systolic blood pressure
reading (the pressure in an
artery when the heart
contracts, recorded as the first
of two figures in a blood
pressure reading). This is the
minimum amount of
information necessary to get a
"risk analysis'' readout from
CARDIO-DIAL.
A more accurate analysis
can be . obtained if the
physician also records the
patient's serum cholesterol or
blood fat level and indicates if
glucose or sugar intolerance is
present and whether the left
ventricle of the heart is
enlarged.
The information on the
form represents seven of the
major ' risk factors" outlined
by William B. Kannel, MD,
Director of the National Heart
and Lung Institute's Heart
Disease Epidemiology Study in
Framingham, Mass. While these
are not the only rish factors,
according to Dr. Kannel, "they
are a good set of proved
merit."
The doctor then dials a
tool-free telephone number,
which connects him to an
operator of the CARDIO-DIAL
Computer System at CIBA
Pharmaceutical Company in
Summit, N. J. He supplies the
operator with the information
about the patient (whose name
is not revealed). Within
seconds, the computer
calculates an estimated "risk
analysis" which the operator
reads back to the doctor. From
these data, the doctor is able to
tell a patient:
-his extimated risk of
developing cardiovascular
complications in .the next eight
years, compared with the
average risk, for his age and sex
group (Tor example, a patient
may have risk that is 2.1
times the average);
-this same risk expressed as
the number of chances in 100
(such as, nine chances in 100
of developing complications);
-the average estimated
number of chances in 100
(four in 100);
the corresponding figures
for a person with the same
characteristics as the patient,
but with a systolic pressure
that is average for his age and
sex group.
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CARDIO-DIAL IN OPERATION
A new service to help physicians aid patients with high blood pressure and other established high
risk factors for heart disease to understand the potential seriousness of their condition has been
introduced nationally by CIBA Pharmaceutical Company. The new system is called Cardio-Dial and
involves a telephone hook-up to a computer that can calculate in tsconds-a patient's susceptibility to
cardiovascular complications. High blood pressure, for example, if left untreated can result in
complications such as stroke, heart failure and kidney failure.