Analisis Interaksi Obat Pada Pasien Hipertensi Geriatri Yang Menjalani Rawat Jalan Di Rs Pku Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Agustus 2009-Agustus 2010

Abstract

Increasing age can cause a variety of degenerative disease, one of which is hypertension. One issue is the treatment of geriatric poiypharmacy the drug interactions may pose clinical problems that require a carefui monitoring and action, for exampie the use of antihypertensives. This study aims to determine the picture of drug use and the reiationship between the number of medication and comorbidities withpotential drug interactions. This study is an observational analytic study using cross sectional study design. Data is retrospectively col lected by using affordable population that meet the cn'teria. The determination of the relationship between the amount of active drug substance and thenumberof comorbidities, with the potential for drug interactions are analyzed using a linear regression. The results show that the most widelyprescribed antihypertension research is in the singular (35.47%) ofamlodipine (46.37%), about 51.27%) of the recipes contain a potential for drug interaction, with the potential drug inter