[The psychological personality characteristics of young hypertension patients].
Overall forty-eight patients with stage I-II hypertensive disease (HD) were examined. A psychological investigation in the patients was conducted as recommended by Eysenck [correction of Isenk], S. Rosenzweig, Luchier. HD patients presenting with aggravated heredity (AH) and their HD parents are more often than not inclined to introversion. In AH-free HD patients, a high level of neuroticism was recordable as was decrement in their ability to compensate anxiety and a low level of social adaptation. It is suggested that AH HD patients might have some mechanism of compensation of anxiety early in the course of the illness.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011593:Psychology, Social