The role of aggression and depression in juvenile systemic hypertension

Natalia Chkuaseli, Bezhan Tsinamdzgvrishvili, Karaman Pagava

Department of Pediatrics, Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia;
M.Tsinamdzgvrishvili Institute of Cardiology, Tbilisi, Georgia

The aim of the work is a detection of youths in the age of 15-16 years old with systemic hypertension and an evaluation of the degree of an aggressiveness among them. The 378 youths were examined. Taking into account the age and the height an arterial blood pressure was measured in the rest condition three times by means of the acoustic method of Korotkov with three minute intervals between measurements. In the 8,46% (32 youths) of cases the systemic hypertension was determined. The control group was formed from 31 healthy volunteers. For the evaluation of an aggressiveness’ degree the questionnaire of Bass and Dark was used. The simultaneous rise of the level of physical, indirect and verbal aggression and irritability was determined in 37,5±9,0% of systemic hypertension whereas in control group it made up 6,45±3,0%. The results obtained suggests that the increment of the level of an aggressiveness in youths may play a pathogenic role in the development of a systemic hypertension.

Keywords:  juvenile systemic hypertension, aggression, depression