PREVALENCE OF ARTERIAL-HYPERTENSION IN OP EN AND INDUSTRIAL-SAMPLES OF MALES ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF CARDIOLOGICAL SCREENING

Cardiological screening for hypertension has been carried out in two p opulation samples of males. The ordered samples consisted of workers a nd employees (a total of 1383 subjects) of two institutions. Of them w orkers made up 64,3%. A random male population comprised 2481 subjects . Of them 1188 (47,88%) were employees. The incidence of hypertension appeared much higher in the random population. It was specific for age and occupation. Hypertension occurred more frequently among workers t han employees in both populations. The occurence of hypertension was a ssociated with body mass excess and age.