In 53 men with high normal blood pressure and hypertension of the 1st grade and in 10 healthy men of the same age men the content of catecholamines in erythrocytes and heart rate variability (HRV) (apparatus CardioТens-01 (Meditech, Hungary) were estimated in dependence on type of left ventricle remodeling (LVR). It was shown that the content of catecholamines in erythrocytes depend on status of autonomic regulation of heart activity and LVR type. In men with concentric type of LVR increasing in the content of catecholamines in erythrocytes is associated with decreasing in HRV in all periods of measurement, which is evidence of prevalence of sympathetic influences on heart activity, and hereditary predisposition to essential hypertension. In men with eccentric type of left ventricle hypertrophy the content of catecholamines in erythrocytes and intensity of sympathetic influences on heart activity did not differ from normal meaning, and the changes of left ventricle structure depended on overweight. These differences reflect different pathogenic mechanisms of the formation of left ventricle structure changes, and prefer the different methods of prophylactics of its progression.
