PSYCHOSOMATIC AND SOCIAL RISK FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF GESTATIONAL ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN PREGNANT WOMEN
The purpose of the study is to determine the role of psychosomatic pathology and social indicators in the development of gestational arterial hypertension. We analyzed 30 questionnaires of women in hospital in the Clinical Maternity Hospital, Smolensk, with a diagnosis of gestational hypertension. The average age of women was 29.9 years. 73.3% had increased body weight and subsequently exceeded the recommended gestational body weight, which averaged 17.4 kg. More than half of the women had a hereditary history of hypertension. The income level per family member for half of the women was average and about a quarter of the respondents had an income level below average. It was revealed that the predominance of working specialties, which entail heavy physical labor, psycho-emotional stress, as well as the average and lower than the average income among women, predispose to stress, bad habits, eating disorders and, as a result, overweight. This indicates that social factors both directly affect the development of gestational arterial hypertension, and indirectly, through the development of psychosomatic pathology.