Essential hypertension and psychoneurologic state of civil aviation pilots.

Abstract

Tests helped to evaluate psychoneurologic state in civil aviation pilots with various stages and grades of essential hypertension. Findings are that increase of essential hypertension intensity from borderline stage to 1 stage 2 grade reliably influences psychoneurologic state of pilots. Worsening was seen for parameters of volitional attention and spatial representation (test <>), ability to operate spatiel representations (test <>), ability to extrapolate, rapid sensomotor reaction (test <>), accuracy of dynamic eye assessment and balance of main nervous processes in visual analyzer (test <>). Essential hypertension groups demonstrated dependence of the test results on age. Essential hypertension lowers parameters of the tests restults - that characterizes psychoneurologic state of pilots.