European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 stars and stripes Friday March 7, 1986 is photo by Joe Mapother spec. 4 Ronald Cox works out on a Treadmill booked up to an electrocardiograph. The statistics will be fed into Berlin s wellness clinic microcomputer. At the controls is sgt. Glenn Robinson. Berlin wellness clinic computer knows How you can be healthier by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau Berlin do you carry a gun or knife for Protection smoke drink exercise regularly a new microcomputer in the army Hospital in Berlin began analysing these and other personal questions from patients this week. Coupled with some hard medical facts such As blood pressure and cholesterol level the analysis results in a detailed printout that can be boiled Down to answers for two Basic health questions is your body older than it should be and How close is your personal health to what it could be the electronic health analysis program and the Perma nent preventive Medicine wellness clinic facility that houses it Are both firsts in Usa eur army medical officials said. As befits the electronic age the computer spits out its Basic answers in numbers. On a Broad scale the patient receives an assessment of his or her physiological age is. Actual age. The question Naire answers also can be used to rate a patient s personal health on a scale of one to 100. To help reach the 100 percent fit level the computer suggests changes in a patient s lifestyle. Those answers come in the form of printed suggestions. One smoker was told to quit and get help if  a person who apparently was t Active enough for the computer s liking was told to exercise More doing activities he enjoyed. Beyond the Overall Index and medical age readings the computer printout gives an individual risk appraisal on a number of common diseases including cirrhosis of the liver and lung cancer. The computer also calculates How far the risk can be reduced by eliminating or cutting Back on habits such As alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking. This is really an excellent motivational tool because it s individualized said capt. Leslie Brousseau health and fitness consultant for 7th medical come. As opposed to a physician quoting general statistics on the incidence of Egypt screening Cairo Egypt a the government has begun purging undesirable members from the Central police Force whose rampage a week ago resulted in 107 people killed and 719 injured a sem official newspaper said thursday. The purge followed official allegations that moslem extremists May have provoked the riots that broke out in Airo and three other cities on feb. 25. In its thursday Early edition Al ashram quoted in engr minister maj. Gen. Zaki Badr As saying his Udes Are preparing lists of unfit elements including heart disease the computer program will Tell the patient what the chances of heart disease Are based on his or her personal lifestyle Brousseau said. We re trying to get the patient to change habits said or. Col James j. James commander of the Hospital in Berlin. Beyond that he said we re usually trying to see if there Are any Early indications of  James said he hoped the Plain English computer an Swers would make potential medical problems easier to understand than Complex explanations in medical jargon. The computer program was developed at the centers for disease control in Atlanta. Doctors at the army Hospital in Berlin Are the first in Usa eur to work with the new diagnostic tool although the army Hospital in Nuernberg is scheduled to Start using a similar program Brousseau said. The microcomputer is Only a part of the embryonic Well Ness clinic program that Berlin health officials Hope eventually will occupy a whole Wing on an upper Hospital floor. Dedication of the clinic last Friday marked the first Perma nent clinic concerned solely with preventive Medicine Brous seau said. In Berlin medical officials have targeted people Between 35 and 40 years of age to begin using the clinic. They Hope to have the facility open by May to Active duty personnel in the City and later to family members As Well. Eventually medical officials would like to use the health appraisal questionnaire for All incoming Active duty personnel to screen for potential health problems. Overall Aims of the clinic Are to reduce the number of sick Days lost per Soldier and to boost morale through a healthier military family James said. Future goals include developing programs geared to Young children to provide doctors with information to make family dietary recommendations James said. We re not Only looking at sick people James said. We re going to Start looking at healthy people in the comm  first major fire of year leaves 18,000 homeless in Rangoon Rangoon Burma up More than 18,000 peo ple were left homeless and property Worth $8 million was destroyed in Rangoon s first major fire of the dry season which broke out in the Western suburbs officials said. The fire started in a Small Bamboo and thatch House and was fanned by Strong winds. It spread quickly to dry wooden buildings in the heavily congested residential area officials said. The burmese government said about \5 Buddhist temples were among the 19,000 buildings destroyed. More than 18,000 people were displaced. Joblessness in Germany hits highest february level since 48 Nuernberg up German unemployment Rose slightly in february to almost 2.6 million the Federal labor office has announced. Agency president Heinrich Franke told a news Confer ence the number of jobless germans Rose by 2,707 during february to 2,593,049, the highest february unemployment level since 1948. This number corresponded to a jobless rate of 10.4 percent identical to january a Franke said. Franke blamed the Rise in unemployment Rolls last month on Winter weather and said he was guardedly optimistic for the future of the Job Market. Passenger bus in Peru buried by Avalanche news Agency says Lima Peru up an Avalanche of mud and Rock buried a bus carrying at least 35 passengers before Dawn wednesday in a mountainous area of Central Peru the state news Agency Andina said. The majority of the passengers Are feared to have perished Andina said. The Agency reported that Rescue workers pulled at least two unidentified survivors from mud and rubble that buried the bus. Torrential Rains apparently caused the mudslide which buried the bus along a sector known As deep Gorge in Apu Rimac state Between the cities of aban Cay and Cuzco Andina said. The site is about 300 Miles Southeast of the capital of Lima. Preliminary reports indicate the vehicle which was heading to Cuzco from Lima is split in two and completely buried Andina reported. Andina said the bus belonged to the Morales Mora Litos bus company based in Lima. Traffic accidents killed 12,000 in chinese cities during 1985 peking a More than 12,000 people died in traffic accidents in China s cities last year up 19.7 percent from 1984, the official China news service has said. More than 64,600 people were injured in about 97,400 traffic accidents in the cities in 1985, the service said. The accidents caused More than $20.3 million in dam age up 42 percent from the year before the report said. Soviet Hijacker sentenced to 8 years in chinese prison peking a a soviet co Pilot who hijacked a Domestic Airliner to China last december has been sentenced to eight years in prison after a Brief trial in the Northeast City of Harbin the soviet embassy announced. The trial is Over and the verdict is eight years in a chinese prison embassy protocol officer Michael solent Sev said. The co Pilot Shamil Gad i ogly Al Muradov was charged with unlawful seizure of a civilian  he becomes the first soviet Ever reported jailed in communist China. Police Force for unfit elements the mentally retarded handicapped sick those who have aggressive inclination and agitators who will be dismissed. The purge will be carried out immediately the paper said. Badr was also quoted As saying that 21,644 conscripts of the 282,000-Man Security Force will be mustered out by mid March. It was not immediately Clear whether their Tours of duty ended or the government just wanted to Cut Down the size of the Force which guards foreign embassies and key Domestic installations. Thousands of Security Force members began rioting the night of feb. 25 Over a false Rumor that their three year enlistment was being extended by one year. The riot which began at a Large Security Force Camp near the great pyramids spilled into Cairo. Mutineers joined by civilians looted and burned hotels nightclubs and cars. The army was called in and troops clashed with the mutineers in the capital and three other cities. _ maj. Gen. Farouk Al Heini an assistant of Badr put the official casualty toll from the riots at 107 killed and 719injured, Al ashram said