title: [Incidence of hypertension and borderline hypertension with reference to complex professional stress in above ground and under ground workers in ore mining].
abstract: Comprehensive health care for working people requires a deeper insight into the relationship between work load and biological reactions. This is necessary to be able to adequately influence the field of industrial medicine. The incidence of both hypertension and borderline-hypertension in a group of 200 face workers with complex work load as well as 150 pithead metal workers aged between 25 and 45 was measured over a period of 5 years (1981-1986). The hypertension incidence was 0.90% in the group of face workers and 1.46% with the pithead metal workers, while the incidence of borderline-hypertension was 1.30% for the face workers and 2.12% for the pithead metal workers. A statistically significant difference between those people working above ground and those working underground was not apparent. No relationship was found between age, Broca-index, habit of smoking, shift work, the total time away from home and the development of an increase in blood pressure. Both a hypertension incidence totalling 1.14% and an incidence of borderline-hypertension of 1.66% were found in the test group aged between 25 and 45. This roughly corresponded to the nationally statistical level and was in line with the relevant literature. There was no discernable effect with regard to developing hypertension and borderline-hypertension, respectively, as a result of complex work load in the test group. The incidence rates require regular blood pressure tests on normotensive miners and pithead workers, respectively, as a prerequisite for early detection and registering as well as an adequate therapy of both hypertension and borderline-hypertension.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zwingenberger
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nestler
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Faulhaber
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008906:Mining; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Hypertonie-und Grenzwerthypertonieinzidenz unter Berücksichtigung komplexer professioneller Belastung unter und über Tage arbeitender Werktätiger im Erzbergbau.