[The prognosis for the development of gestoses taking into account the psychophysiological individuality of pregnant women].

Psychophysiological predictors of gestosis have been determined in pregnant women followed up at an antenatal clinic. They typically exhibited anxiety states with increased neuroticism, an introverted personality, impairment of brainstem-subcortical relations due to dysfunctions of nonspecific units of the visceral brain and their activating effects on the normal cortex, exaggerated cutaneous galvanic reflexes. A clinical follow-up of women at an increased risk showed the onset of edematous nephrotic gestosis in 62.8% and hypertensive gestosis in 37.2% of pregnancies, indicating a predictive value of the identified risk factors.