Quality of Life and Compliance with Treatment in Patients with Essential Hypertension

Abstract

The relation of the total index of the quality of life and the integral index of compliance with treatment in definite levels of systolic and diastolic blood pressure as a whole by the example of all examined patients - with hypertension, as well as in groups of persons with various minifestation of arterial hypertension with lesion and without lesion of brain vessels, is estimated. The obtained results of calculating the integral index of compliance with treatment in various levels of blood pressure, the estimation of its variation causes, as well as the correlation of this parameter with other characteristics show the difinite discriminative ability and validity of the method developed.

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Galyavich A.S., Davidov S.V.