Avaliação da terapia medicamentosa em pacientes com hipertensão arterial sistêmica.

Abstract

The present study aims to evaluate the drug prescription treatment in hypertension patients. It was a cross-sectional study conducted from records of secondary data of hypertension patients in treatment at HIPERDIA programs from Family Health Units from Cajazeiras-PB. The sample was selected by aleatory method, sweepstake, through of choose of 30 medical records in each Family Health Unit. Data from medical records were tabulated and analyzed using SPSS through the relative and absolute frequency. From the results, it was observed that the majority were female (65%), married (a) (66,7%), in incomplete primary education (38,3%), retired (a) (40%), and the mostly of them had a diagnostic time of hypertension ranging from 2-5 years (51,6%). The evaluation of antihypertensive therapy showed that diuretics and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors are the most prescribed medicaments. The monotherapy, the frequency of drug use, dosage and dose presented a high percentage of correlation with the VI Brazilian Guidelines Hypertension when assessed in isolation, however, the percentage of divergence increased when compared all of the prescription with the guideline, and the associated therapies showed larger divergences over monotherapy.