WAYS FOR RAISING EFFICIENCY OF SHORTENED COMBINED COURSES OF SULFIDE BALNEOPELOTHERAPY OF HYPERTENSION AT HEALTH-RESORT

Aim. The aim of the study was to investigate the possibility of applying the shortened courses of health-resort treatment using sulfide balneopelotherapy during 14 days and the local influence of low-frequency variable magnetic field on biologically active points according to E.V. Rybolovlev method. Materials and methods. One hundred and twenty patients with stage I and II arterial hypertension (AH) were examined. The study joined patients aged 30-65 years including 62 women and 58 men. Therapeutic complexes for hypertensive patients lasting for 21 days and 14-day courses of sulfide balneopelotherapy alone and combined with magnetotherapy were studied and compared. Results. In all the groups, patients subjected to daily measurement of office AP had hypotensive effect. When studying endothelial dysfunction, more marked vasodilating effect was registered during a 22-day course of balneopelotherapy (group 1). Shortening of balneopelotherapy course (group 2), leads to reduction of vasodilating effect. In group 3 (combination of a 14-day therapy with magnethotherapy), increase in endothelium-dependent vasodilation was revealed. Conclusions. Shortening of sulfide balneopelotherapy course from 21days to 14 days resulted in reduction of hypotensive effect. Combination of a 14-day therapeutic complex with local magnetotherapy leads to rise in hypotensive effect. This complex approaches by its efficiency a 21-day balneopelotherapy course for treatment of hypertension.

Hypertension, sulfide balneopelotherapy, local magnetotherapy