BARBOSA, T. L.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4263036569725332; BARBOSA, Thiago Lívio.; PEREIRA, Thiago Lívio Barbosa.
Resumen:
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.