Материалы конференции Alekhina O., Olysheva I., Burlachuk V. Voronezh N.N. Burdenko State Medical University, Voronezh, Russia Peculiarities of arterial hypertension in primary care practitioners Background. <...> Chronic stress, psycho-emotional overstrain, long-lasting working day – all these conditions, in which doctors work in primary care, can infl uence the course of arterial hypertension (AH) and increase risk of developing cardiovascular complications. <...> To investigate characteristics of AH and the prevalence of other cardiovascular risk factors among primary care practitioners. <...> This can improve optimal approaches to the management of such patients. <...> The study included 312 general practitioners from the Voronezh and Lipetsk regions (11.5% males and 88.5% females), being trained at the Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education, VSMU, in 2015-2016. <...> The average age of testees was 46.5±4.4 years. <...> All doctors were conducted an anonymous questionnaire, physical examination with obligate measurements of blood pressure (BP), ankle-brachial index, body mass index. <...> Biochemical blood analysis included determination of blood glucose, lipid profi le, blood plasma creatinine with calculation of glomerular fi ltration rate using the CKD-EPI formula (2011). <...> Patients with AH were done an electrocardiogram, Doppler echocardiography, BP daily monitoring, renal ultrasound examination, Doppler ultrasound scanning of brachiocephalic arteries; microalbuminuria was also defi ned. <...> The results obtained showed that the prevalence of atherogenic dyslipidemia and hypertension in the cohort of doctors was generally higher than among the working population of Russia (56.6% of males and 40.6% of females for dyslipidemia, 47.2% of males and 44% of females for AH). <...> Other cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, overweight, violation of glucose metabolism, physical inactivity), on the contrary, occurred much less frequently than in the general population. <...> Besides, a signifi cant part of the testees suff ering from AH received treatment with antihypertensive drugs (70.6% of males and 94.4% of females), but the targeted BP fi ndings were registered in only 50.0% of males and 41.2% of females. <...> AH in medical practitioners was characterized by relatively low frequency of hereditary predisposition (52.9% males, 44.4% females), but hypertensive remodeling of one or more target organs was recorded in 94.1% of men and 89.9% of women. <...> Consequently <...>