[Hospitalized hypertensiol patients with gastrointestinal disease].

A careful codification according to the rules of electronic data processing of all data given and especially of the admission number on the signature margin of th medical record gives the possiblity of a rapid return of information for the practice and of a scientific evalustion. 404 patients with hypertension (400-404) of the distric Rostock who were treated in the clinic simultaneously suffered from gastrointestinal diseases (531-536, 570-577). For a more specialized analysis of the clinical data from case histories the four largest institutions of the district were chosen. From this results a relation number of 100 patients with these diagnostic combinations. 73% of these patients were of female sex. The higher blood pressure values at the beginning of the treatment we find in hypertensive patients with simultaneous disease of the gallbladder, in which cases these patients to 44% also showed an overweight. In 74% of the patients there occurred a systolic decrease of blood pressure, in 66% a diastolic one. More frequently than on the average the decrease of the blood pressure appeared in patients with liver and gall-bladder diseases.