[The role of arterial hypertension in the occurrence of strokes at a young age].

The analysis of insult occurrence in patients at the age under 45 years, caused by blood hypertension, shows, that they make 30.1% from common number of insult in 166 young people, treated in the neurological and other departments of Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital in 1989-1996. On occasion of ischemic insult were treated 37 patients, hemorrhagic--13. The reason of insults was "soft" blood hypertension: in 51.4%--at ischemic insult and in 30.1%--hemorrhagic. The authors consider, that the main direction of prophylaxis of insult is active revealing and adequate treatment of the patients with blood, including "soft" hypertension, use of hypotensive preparations and some non-medicative methods of treatment.