[Evaluation of the effectiveness of the program of primary prevention of arterial hypertension at an industrial plant based on a prospective epidemiological study].

Whether the primary arterial hypertension prevention programme can be applied among employees of a Novosibirsk industrial enterprise within the framework of the second stage of the USSR Cooperative Study of Arterial Hypertension Control, is studied. For this, the authors used sodium-restricted diet concurrent with non-drug therapy (physio-, balneo-, reflexotherapy and acupuncture), and active sanitary education. The 2-year prospective follow-up showed a sufficiently high efficiency of health measures: the incidence of borderline hypertension was reduced by 10.5% at the end of the study, blood pressures could be maintained at the level of the borderline and subnormal values in most patients with persistent hypertension, the patients at risk developed no persistent hypertension, cases. In a 20% blind sample from the matched population, the changes in the frequency of various blood pressures were insignificant during this period.