Prevalencia de la hipertensión en pacientes con diabetes mellitus e intervención farmacéutica en el Grupo de Diabéticos del Hospital IESS - Riobamba

Abstract

The present project is a study of the prevalence of arterial hypertension in patients with Diabetes Mellitus and pharmaceutical intervention in the group of diabetics of the IESS-Riobamba hospital, specifically the CASA CALERO group, the project was carried out with the purpose of making a pharmaceutical intervention to improve the pharmacotherapy and quality of life of patients, with a successive control of clinical and anthropometric parameters. The inductive method was applied to obtain general conclusions from particular facts; the Dáder method of pharmacotherapeutic follow-up was also applied to determine the main drug-related problems. We worked with 30 diabetic patients between 54 and 83 years of age. The patient's health status was analyzed by means of clinical history, successive interviews and pharmacotherapeutic profiles, and the main drug-related problems they had were determined, with untreated health problems accounting for 33.3%, administration of an unnecessary drug with 27.8%, quantitative insecurity with 16.5% and finally quantitative ineffectiveness and non-quantitative insecurity, both with 11.1%. It was concluded that 63.3% of the patients had both diabetes and hypertension, showing that both pathologies go hand in hand. It is recommended that the director of the IESS-Riobamba hospital continue to open up new research projects that contribute to the improvement of health services.