[Cerebro-autonomic correlations in patients with early stages of hypertension during reflexotherapy]. / Tserebral'no-vegetativnye sootnosheniia u bol'nykh gipertonicheskoi bolezn'iu rannikh stadii v protsesse refleksoterapii.

Seventy patients with Stages I and II hypertensive disease underwent electrocardiographic studies of the emotional syndrome and central hemodynamics prior to and following reflexotherapy. Characteristics of the psychovegetative syndrome were identified in the patients. A significant antihypertensive effect and normalized psychological and vegetative parameters observed after reflexotherapy suggest that acupuncture is beneficial in the treatment at early stages of essential hypertension.

[Cerebral and autonomic aspects of labile hypertension]. / Tserebral'no-vegetativnye aspekty labil'noi gipertonii.

EEG, central hemodynamic parameters and the emotional syndrome were investigated in 55 patients with labile hypertension. Two cerebrovegetative patterns corresponding to different degrees of cortical activation and different mechanisms controlling arterial blood pressure and anxiety levels were identified. As the two groups of patients did not differ in terms of age or duration of the disease, those could not be attributed to different stages of the disease, suggesting rather that sympathetic and parasympathetic vegetative nervous components may be making different contributions to the formation of hemodynamic type.