Primary Individual Prevention: Some Problems

The article generalizes the author’s findings of years of research. Methodology and a simple method of estimation of the level of health of an individual were developed. It was established that the basis of somatic health depends on the effectiveness of the mitochondria that appeared on the organism’s level in the form of maximum aerobic capacity of energy production. The increase of aerobic capacity causes two systems of feedback that are the expansion of reserve and economization of functions. This finding was used to build the "scale" of individual health. The application of this method during population studies revealed a number of new phenomena, such as the "safe level" of health, above which neither endogenous risk factors of coronary heart disease manifest, nor the disease itself; "self-development" of the pathological process after an individual left the "safe zone" of health and others. A new direction of the primary individual prevention of IHD (in addition to the population’s and the group’s prevention) was initiated. It was called “return of the individual to a "safe zone" of health—preventive rehabilitation.