Open AccessThe condition of parameters of memory, attention and thinking at men of young age officers under the contractwith arterial hypertension.
Author(s) -
Il'ya Mikhaylovich Davidovich,
О. В. Афонасков,
Yuliya Konstantinovna Staroverova
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
sistemnye gipertenzii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2542-2189
pISSN - 2075-082X
DOI - 10.26442/sg33098
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , cognition , disease , cardiology , tonicity , duration (music) , stage (stratigraphy) , psychology , psychiatry , art , literature , paleontology , biology
Aim: to evaluate memory, attention and thinking functions indices in young hired military officers depending on their 24-hours blood pressure profiles.Materials and methods. The study was made in 49 patients with stage 1-2 arterial hypertension, aged 39,3±0,8, who did not take hypotensive medicines or took them occasionally. 24-hours blood pressure monitoring was performed with assessment of cognitive functions (memory, attention) depending on the stage, degree and duration of the disease. The control group included 12 men with no signs of arterial hypertension.Results. Comparing with the controls the memory, attention and thinking indices in hypertonic patients were found to be lower .even in those who had the first degree of hypertension and duration of the disease less than 5 years. The hypertonic patients showed lowering of attention and semantic memory scopes irrespective of duration of the disease. There was a negative correlation between monitored blood pressure data and memory, attention and thinking indices.Conclusions. Light cognitive dysfunctions can be found in young hired military officers with initial arterial hypertension but they are more typical for stage 2 of the disease