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Analysis of Pharmacotherapy by patients with diagnosis of arterial hypertension

Title: Analysis of Pharmacotherapy by patients with diagnosis of arterial hypertension Student: Vasiliki Kontou Tutor: Prof. RNDr. Jiri Vlcek, CSs Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove Introduction: Arterial Hypertension (AH) is characterized by elevated blood pressure, which often leads to increased morbidity and mortality. AH divided into primary and secondary. Aim: In the theoretical part the aim is to analyse the etiopathogenesis, methods of diagnosis and the treatment strategies of arterial hypertension in the recent literature. In the experimental part the aim is to analyse the provisions of the above diagnosis of arterial hypertension. Method: During a six month period were collected 58 prescriptions with the diagnosis of arterial hypertension from a pharmacy that provided pharmaceutical care in the Greek village, Mytikas. Only one prescription for one patient was analysed. In the prescriptions were collected data on drugs, patients and physicians. Results: The pilot study included 58 prescriptions. Most patients were elderly, over 65 years old and 30% were in age 71 - 80 years. General practitioners prescribed 65% of the medical prescriptions. Most frequently prescribed ARBs with hydrochlorothiazide drugs (27%) and...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:322068
Date January 2013
CreatorsKontou, Vasiliki
ContributorsVlček, Jiří, Macek, Karel
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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