[Arterial hypotension and the initial manifestations of cerebral circulatory failure]

A study was made of the health status of 20 persons examined for the first time 10 years before for a long-term and steady decrease of arterial pressure classified at that period as vegetodystonia of the neurotic character. 71 healthy test subjects served as a reference group. In addition to the clinical examination, a specialized questionnaire was used to examine the status of the vegetative nervous system; the actual mental status and personality traits were investigated by the MIL test modified by F. B. Berezin and M. P. Miroshnikov; the level of reactive and personality anxiousness were estimated with the aid of Spilberger's scale; the life events and changes were assessed as well. It has been revealed that vegetodystonia recorded in the disease history produces no effect on the frequency and times of the appearance of the initial manifestations of cerebral circulatory failure (IMCCF). At the same time the intensity of vegetative disorders in the structure of the clinical manifestations of the IMCCF was higher in persons, in whose disease histories vegetodystonia was recorded.