Assessment of the “quality of life” in patients with essential hypertension as a result of the course photochromotherapy
AUTHORS : Mashkovskaya1 Ya.N. | Borovikova1 V.N. | Novoseltsev3 S.V. | Yesterday’s2.4 D.B.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : 1 Federal State Institution “Russian Research Neurosurgical Institute named after Professor A.L. Polenov “Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation,2 St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Medicine, 3 Northwestern State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov,4 Physicotechnical
Institute named after A.F. Ioffe RAS, St. Petersburg
YEAR : 2013
SUMMARY
The paper considers the use of photochromotherapy in the treatment of patients with arterial hypertension of 2 and 3 degrees at the age of 70 ± 2.5 years. The positive effect of green light photochromotherapy on the quality of life of such patients was shown using the SF-36 questionnaire.
Key words: arterial hypertension, quality of life, physiotherapy, photochromotherapy,
SF-36.