[Systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressure in patients with angina pectoris (a long-term study)]

The prospective follow-up of 190 patients with angina pectoris (males, aged 40-59 years) which lasted for 26 years revealed that only 37 (19.5%) persons survived. Out of 153 patients who expired, 76% were subjected to pathoanatomical or medicolegal examination. It was revealed that cardiovascular lesions were responsible for 71.9% death cases in patients with angina pectoris. The elevation of both systolic and diastolic arterial pressure corresponds with a general tendency to the rise of lethality from ischemic cerebral or heart disease though the impact and character of their influence is different.