To the Question of Choosing Optimal Approaches to the Prevention of Arterial Hypertension in the Work Places in the Organized Population of Baku City

Introduction. Due to the growing prevalence of arterial hypertension (AH) among the adult population of industrialized countries, the issues of prevention and treatment of this disease are under the close attention of researchers and are among the most pressing problems of modern cardiology. Material and methods. The survey of 110 employees (84 women and 26 men) of one of the scientific libraries of Baku city was conducted with the help of a set of standard methods of epidemiological research in cardiology. Results of the research. The presence of AH was found in 26.4% of persons in the institution under study. Moreover, 15.5% of them were patients with AH, the remaining 10.9% were patients who did not know about their disease. In order to determine the possible risk of new cases of AH in this institution, a comparative analysis of the frequency of occurrence of the main risk factors (RF) of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among the surveyed staff with the presence and absence of AH was conducted. Although all patients without AH were younger than 40 years of age, the incidence of major RF of CVD was noted, in some cases close to that of patients with AH. Conclusion. The received data testify to the fact that the introduction of preventive measures aimed at the correction of the RF of CVD taking into account the specific conditions and specifics of work in the institution under study will significantly reduce the possibility of new cases of AH among the investigated category of patients.