Аpplication of regression analysis for differential diagnosis of essential arterial hypertension and neurocirculatory asthenia of the hypertensive type

Abstract

In the practice of a military doctor, it is often necessary to make a differential diagnosis between neurocirculatory asthenia (NCA) of the hypertensive type and hypertensive disease (HD) stage I among young and middle-aged military personnel. Both hypertensive NCA and stage I HD patients under examination had autonomic disturbances of varying severity. In patients with NCA of the hypertensive type, the frequency and severity of the autonomic disturbances was higher. It is often not possible to make an accurate differential diagnosis of two diseases based on data from a standard clinical examination and basic laboratory and instrumental investigation methods. By constructing prediction equations for a particular patient with a probability of more than 96.1%, it is possible to calculate the acceptability of relating him to a certain diagnosis.