Results of studying senior high school students opinion about the problem of arterial hypertension of the teenage population

The purpose of our research was studying the features of the social status, way of living and the way of adolescents life. We have organized interrogation of senior high school students concerning an essential arterial hypertension (EAH). As a result it was revealed that due to modern adolescents way of living there are many risk factors of EАH development. So one third of adolescents are brought up in singleparent families. The majority of the respondents has bad habits (mainly smoking), or are exposed to the influence of this factor when contacting with close relatives. Seven of ten interrogated are exposed to inactive way of life and more than a half of respondents are characterized by low medical activity. We have found out that children have low level of knowledge about EAH, its possible complications and preventive maintenance. The basic source of information about this disease turned out to be parents, for half of children - doctors of polyclinic, and one seventh named the school doctor. At the same time, the majority of the interrogated have assigned the basic responsibility for their health to itself, it testifies to their understanding of their own responsibility. Thus, features of way of life of the interrogated can cause not only the general deterioration of health, but also development of such disease as an arterial hypertension and can negatively affect the dynamics of its development and course.