[Correlations among various indices characterizing the psychological and somatic status of patients with essential hypertension].

The interrelationships between the psychic status according to the MMPI test findings and indices of the central hemodynamics, microcirculation and working capacity were studied in 263 persons with borderline arterial hypertension and patients with essential hypertension. Significant non-linear correlations between hypochondriac, anxiety-depressive and hysteric tendencies, on the one hand, and parameters of arterial pressure, peripheral vascular resistance, cardiac output and tolerance to physical exercise, on the other hand, were revealed in essential hypertension.