Prescribing patterns of antihypertensive drugs in geriatric population in tertiary care hospital
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https://doi.org/10.7439/ijpr.v6i3.3093Abstract
Hypertension is one of the major chronic diseases with high mortality and morbidity in the todays world. Present study was to assess the prescribing pattern of antihypertensive medications in geriatric population suffering mainly from hypertension with or without co morbidities like Diabetes Mellitus (DM). A prospective observational study was carried out for a period of six months in an in-patient general medicine department. Elderly patients who have been diagnosed with pure hypertension as per JNC 7 guidelines and hypertension with co- morbid condition like diabetes mellitus and patients receiving or prescribed with antihypertensive drugs were included. A total of 150 prescriptions were analyzed. The present study revealed that there were 93 patients with pure Hypertension and 57 patients with co morbid conditions like Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Among antihypertensive drugs in pure hypertensive cases, 53.76% of cases were prescribed with monotherapy, followed by 46.23% by combination therapy. The commonly prescribed antihypertensive monotherapy is calcium channel blockers. The most commonly prescribed combination therapy in severe cases was angiotensin receptor blockers with diuretics. This prescribing pattern of antihypertensives was as per Joint National Committee-7report on hypertension. In case of geriatric patients suffering from hypertension with Type 2 diabetes mellitus, most commonly prescribed antihypertensive as monotherapy was found to be amlodipine and combination therapy was telmisartan + hydrochlorothiazide.Downloads
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2016-03-30
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Philip R, A. DK, Mathew M, Tanuja Reddy VL, M. MN, Krishnamurthy MS. Prescribing patterns of antihypertensive drugs in geriatric population in tertiary care hospital. Int J of Pharmc Res [Internet]. 2016 Mar. 30 [cited 2025 Mar. 14];6(3):114-9. Available from: https://ssjournals.co.in/index.php/ijpr/article/view/3093