[Psychosomatic aspects of arterial hypertension]

In patients with labile hypertension aged 18-25 years the authors observed an increased sympathicoadrenal reactivity to mental strain caused by solution of a numerical square, parallel with a rise of diastolic blood pressure. Despite the fact that we do not know so far to what extent prolonged mental strain participates in the genesis and development of essential hypertension, the findings of the influence of some types of short-term strain on an acute rise of the blood pressure in hypertonic subjects should be used to modify the non-medicamentous procedure in treatment of the disease.