[Use of discriminant analysis in the development of a prognostication system for complications of hypertension]

The knowledge of unfavourable factors affecting the course of essential hypertension (EH) cannot solve the problem of identifying persons for differentiated follow-up and treatment of those with the increased risk for EH complications. In order to elaborate the system of prognosing acute complications of EH among rural population a prospective and retrospective methods of observation were used. To develop a system of prognosing a discriminant analysis was used. The individual risk for acute complications in EH is determined by available signs according to the working table by finding the algebraic sum of prognostic coefficients. The result is compared with the scale of threshold value of summarized influence of factors.