Arterial hypertension: Psychoneurohumoral disbalance and methods of its correction
Psychoemotional status, neurohumoral profile and their interrelations were studied in patients with arterial hypertension. Psychoemotional dysfunction was found in 67,8 %. All patients with arterial hypertension were divided into 2 groups according to psychoemotional status disbalance: 1<sup>st</sup> group included patients with high aggressiveness (28,7 %); 2<sup>nd</sup> group - patients with high situational and personal anxiety and high hostility (39,1 %). There can be distinguished three types if psychoneurohumoral disbalance depending on gender and clinical characteristics: anxiety-metabolic, anxiety-adrenergetic and aggressive-metabolic. Differential therapeutic and psychotherapeutic approach regarding the type of psychoneurohumoral disorder improves quality of life, normalizes hormonal status and psychoemotional balance in hypertensive patients.