Abstract

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PREVALENCE AND PRESCRIPTION PATTERNS AT A TERITARY LEVAL HOSPITAL

Syed Jamil Aktar, KJ. Heinrich Vijaya Sagar, M. Sai Priya, Md. Samin Aktar,

Abstract

The study is mainly observing the prevalence, prescribing pattern and the method of treatment used for the treatment of several cardiovascular diseases. The patients from other hospital departments or below 18 years, pregnant and lactating women are excluded from this study. The patients who diagnosed with any CVDs other than the above categories are selected for the study. In this study a total of 500 patients were selected by the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Out of the 500 patients selected 301 (60.2%) patients were male and the remaining 199 (39.8%) patients were female. In this study most of the patients came under the category of male than female, it may be due to their daily activities, smoking and alcoholic habits. Cardiovascular diseases may affect any age of the life but by increasing the age the chance for CVD is also increased. In this study the maximum number of patients comes under the age 51-60 years followed by 61-70 years of old. Extensive diagnosis made by the physician’s revealed different clinical conditions prevailing among the patients. Definitely, 29.73% of patients were reported to have hypertension whereas 19.86% of patients were diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Almost 9.41% of CVD patients were reported with arrhythmia. Ischemic heart disease was reported in 6.65% of patients, cardiac myopathy in 6.54% of patients, while 6.31% of patients were reported with aortic valve stenosis and 5.9% of patients were diagnosed with heart failure. The study concluded that most of the patients included in the study were suffering from hypertension and coronary artery disease. These may be due to their food habits, smoking, less exercise and poor health hygiene.

Keywords: Cardiovascular Disease, Prevalence, Prescription Patterns, Tertiary Level Hospital.