Basic symptom complexes and conditions of forming neurotic and affective disorders in patients having cardiovascular diseases

The paper presents results of investigation of factors determining difficulties of modern recognition of neurotic, affective and other mental disorders by physicians of general medicine network and motives underlying addressing by patients with combined somatic and mental pathology a psychiatrist. On a large clinical material including 1350 patients, the analysis of psychologic symptoms which mask the manifestations and complicate early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases associated with non-psychotic mental disorders is presented.