“A STUDY ON PRESCRIBING PATTERN OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS DURING PREGNANCY IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL, BANGALORE.”

2016-10-16T02-20-53Z
Source: Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research
Anju .A .S, Peter Kandel, Dr. Praveen Kumar, K. Ramkumar, Dr. B. A Viswanath.
BACKGROUND: The aim of the study is to access the current trend of prescribing patterns of the drugs used in the treatment of Hypertension in pregnancy in a tertiary care hospital, Bangalore. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A hospital based retrospective and prospective observational study was conducted for a period of 6 months. 150 cases were collected for the study.A suitable designed data collection form was used to record all the necessary datas. The collected datas were analysed for the prescribing pattern of drugs used in pregnancy at initiation and during entire study period, reduction in pressure after the therapy, teratogenicity of the commonly prescribed drugs associated co-morbities and maternal complications.RESULTS: The category of the antihypertensives used in Gestational Hypertension and its management were Central sympatholytics, alpha+beta receptor antagonist, Calcium Channel Blocker, Angiotensin Receptor Blocker, Diuretics and MgSO4. The present study revealed that Methyldopa (category B) was the most frequently used drug constituting 30% followed by Labetalol 20% of the therapy. The most frequently used therapy was Single Drug Therapy constituting 66%. Double, Triple and Multi Drug Therapy were also used.CONCLUSION: Methyldopa was the commonly prescribed antihypertensives in monotherapy as well as combination for GHTN.


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