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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of A type behavior in the development of essential hypertension.Methods The questionnaire of A type behavior were used to investigate 230 patients,divided into hypertension group (147) and no hypertension group (66). There are 89 patients and 14 patients of A type behavior in each group. 17 patients were eliminated. In some patients including A type (24 cases) and B type (26 cases), the level of norepinephrine (NE), renin (Ren) , angiotensin Ⅱ (AngⅡ), aldosterone (Ald) was tested. Results There were more A type behavior in hypertension group than no hypertension group, P 0.05).Conclusions The result confirmed that A type behavior has some influence on the development of essential hypetension and has some adverse effect on prognosis of patients.