[Effectiveness of long-term treatment of patients with hypertension].

Dispensary care was provided to 122 patients with essential hypertension. During a 3-year follow-up period BP decrease in regularly treated patients (44) was accompanied by the restoration of hemodynamic cardiac function and regression of myocardial hypertrophy and ischemia. BP stabilization, transformation of the blood circulation of hemodynamic type, an increased degree of myocardial hypertrophy and ischemia were noted in irregularly treated patients.