[Interrelations between personality characteristics and the autonomic pattern in mild strokes developed in various forms of arterial hypertension].

Abstract

The data on the characterological personality traits and the vegetative pattern in persons with cerebrovascular pathology (minor brain stroke-MBS) associated with different forms of arterial hypertension (AH) (stable, malignant, labile) make it possible to delineate two psychovegetative personality types. The first one is the hysterical one with an initial sympathetic tone and excess vegetative supply, the second one is the ++anxio-hypochondriac or depressive (more rarely) with an initial parasympathetic or combined vegetative tone with an insufficient level of vegetative supply, and vegetative reactivity. The labile (mild, episodic) forms of AH aggravated by cerebrovascular pathology (MBS) are likely to be the constituent part of the psychovegetative syndrome (the first psychovegetative personality type). The stable forms of AH (including malignant ones) aggravated by episodes of vascular dyscirculatory disorders (MBS) are similar to the second psychovegetative personality type as regards their characterological and vegetative traits. The data obtained can be used not only in subsequent studies of the etiopathogenesis of MBS associated with different forms of AH but also in terms of practical and preventive aspects.