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Aim: To study relationship between anemia and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of chronic kidney disease stage 5 patients (CKD) undergoing renal replacement therapy by programmed hemodialysis., Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on the basis of dialysis centers/departments in Moscow. The Russian-language version of the KDQOL-SF TM questionnaire, validated in Russia, was used to assess the HRQOL of patients on hemodialysis. A total of 723 patients were interviewed. Hemoglobin (Hb) levels were assessed in 442 patients based on outpatient records. To identify the relationship between Hb level and HRQOL scales, a correlation analysis was performed, as well as a HRQOL analysis in the three groups differing in hemoglobin levels (<100; 100-120 and >120 g/l). Statistical data processing was carried by SPSS.22 and using parametric and nonparametric statistical methods., Results: Correlation relationship was revealed between Hb and HRQOL of patients on hemodialysis on the scales "symptoms/problems", "pain", "vital activity, energy" and "total physical component of health". According to the scales "symptoms/problems" and "vital activity, energy", higher rates were noted among patients with Hb higher than the target level, which confirms the recommendations concerning the possibility of achieving higher Hb among individual patients who have not serious concomitant diseases and cardiovascular complications in order to improve their quality of life., Conclusion: HRQOL assessment is important tool for planning and evaluating the effectiveness of anemia drug therapy among patients with CKD on hemodialysis.

In this work, we present results on study of DLC, nanocomposite and nanocrystal nanographite films synthesized utilizing mass-separated beam of C60-ions with energy in range from 2 to 6 keV (energy dispersions approximately 1 keV) and at Ts in the range of RT - 873 K. The dependence of the structure, mechanical and electrical properties from the ion energy and substrate temperature was revealed. We demonstrate a possibility to control the orientation of the base planes in the nanographite grains during the film growth. The dependence of mechanical properties of the films from the orientation of the base planes was defined. It is discussed a mechanisms of oriented growth for nanocrystal graphite. Possible applications of the textured nanocomposite and nanographite films are nanodevices, thin-filmed lithium batteries and field-emitter arrays.

The kinetics of explosive boiling-up of liquid argon has been investigated at negative pressures created by the reflection of a compression pulse 3-5 mus long from the free surface of a liquid by the method of liquid pulse heating on a thin platinum wire (with a rate of temperature increase of about 1 Kmus). The limiting superheats T(*) (stretches p(*)), the effective nucleation rate J(*), and the derivative G(T)=(d ln JdT)(T=T(*) ) have been determined by experimental data on the thermal perturbation of a wire probe and the results of solution of the problem on the initial stage of explosive boiling-up of a liquid. The experimental data are compared with homogeneous nucleation theory.