Antihypertensive therapy influence on clinical and psychological characteristics of patients with hypertensive encephalopathy

Aim: to analyze the influence of antihypertensive therapy (AT) on clinical and psychological characteristics of patients with hypertensive encephalopathy (HE). Materials: 107 patients with HE l-lll were given inadequate AT and therefore were under the study. Diurnal blood pressure monitoring (DBPM), neurological status, asthenic disorder level, life quality (LQ) parameters, sleep quality and attitude-to-disease type were estimated. The patients were re-examined in 6-month period after prescribing an adequate AT. The control group included 30 healthy patients. Results: in the process of AT daily average indices of blood pressure (BP) were able to be matched with the control indices, the number of patients with normal degree of night BP decrease raised. Physical and psychological health constituents were increased. Sleep quality improved. The increase of patients with well-balanced attitude-to-disease type was fixed. Resume: the use of the modern antihypertensive drugs affects the clinical and psychological characteristics of HE patients positively