The role of depression in development and strengthening hypertension disease

The peculiarities of the personality type of GB patients (according to Young's criteria) and the degree of depressive disorders in patients with 42 hypertensive patients (GB) were studied. It was revealed that in GB, 55.8% of patients had A type, 45.2% had a type of character. Among men, type A persons prevail, among wom-en - B type. In GB, mild depression is diagnosed in 11.9%, moderate depression in 21.4%, moderate depression in 35.7% and severe depression in 30.9% of patients. The frequency and severity of depressive symptoms in GB depends on the complications of the disease. At PIKS (75,0%) in comparison with patients with angina (66,0%) symptoms of severe and severe depression are more often registered. Deterioration of the systolic function of the heart and associated heart failure, atrial fibrillation worsen the depressive symptoms