[Clinical characteristics of depressive disorders in hypertensive patients].

UNLABELLED: There is an interrelation between the psychic and the somatic affectation in the case of the patients suffering of essential high blood pressure that associates the depressive disorder.

OBJECTIVES

Our study aims to compare two groups of patients in regard to the level of depression and anxiety, and to underline the clinical and the evolutional characteristics of the depressive disorder in the case of patients suffering from essential high blood pressure.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

The study has been realized on 200 patients divided in 100 patients suffering of depression and 100 patients suffering of depression and HBP. There has been used the anamnesis, the HAMD and the HAMA.

RESULTS

We have noticed that the level of depression is significantly increased in the group with depression and HBP by comparison with the group of those without HBP (t = -4.539, p = 0.000 < 0.05). The clinical manifestations and the evolution of the depressive syndrome, for the HBP, are polymorph and presents a nucleus around which are associated series of affective, vegetative and organic states.

CONCLUSION

The progression of the HBP leads to the intensification of the neuropsychical disorders and backwards--the negative evolution of depression can lead to the increase of the blood pressure values, frequently causing hypertensive crises.