[Role of hormonal factors in the etiology of juvenile arterial hypertension].

A study of the hormonal spectrum, mainly of sex hormones, has revealed that male youths with systolic arterial hypertension have considerably higher levels of testosterone as compared with both normal values and those observed in patients with more stable forms of arterial hypertension (essential hypertension of stage IB-IIA, renal hypertension). The findings obtained justify the conclusion that androgen hyperproduction is the cause rather than the consequence of hypertension in the pubertal period. The results of the study may be used in the differential diagnosis of hypertension in youth.