[The status of respiratory organs in hypertensive patients]

The condition of the respiratory system in essential hypertension was studied with the tests of general hemodynamics, echocardiography, zonal rheography of the lungs and rheospirography with estimation of ventilation-perfusion relations. Hypertension was found to affect not only cardiovascular but also respiratory system. Hypertension-related respiratory disorders present as vascular dysfunction in the lungs, restrictive defects of pulmonary ventilation, imbalance between the ventilatory reserve and reserve of the pulmonary and systemic blood flow with progression of arterial hypertension.