The ability to control blood pressure of patients with hypertension attended at chronic disease clinic, Thungsaliam hospital.

Abstract

This article has two objectives:1) to provide the research analytical result of ability to control the high blood pressure of high blood pressure patients in Thungsaliam hospital, and 2) to display the result of the use of medicines to control the high blood pressure of those patients in three dimensions. There include 1) the number of medicines used by those successful patients control their high blood pressure, 2) the number of the patients who successfully control their high blood pressure and their medicine dosages can be reduced, and 3) the unsuccessful patients ,then medicines and dosages.

It is revealed that

(1) Most female patients are able to successfully control their high blood pressure state at the appropriate level (50.6%). The largest number of patients are the elderly patients (35.2%).Those patients who have their right in health insurance are mostly able to successfully control their high blood pressure state at the appropriate level.(55.3%) and (2) the study on the result of the use of the high blood pressure controlling medicine of those patients shows that 53 patients (35.3%) are mostly able to successfully control their high blood pressure state by taking the only one type of medicine, 40 patients(26.6%) are able to successfully control their high blood pressure state by taking the two types of medicine, 1 patients (0.6%) are able to successfully control their high blood pressure state by taking the four types of medicine, and 5 patients (3.3%) are able to reduce the dosage of the medicine taken. However, there are 38 patients who are not able to control their high blood pressure level as expected(25.3%).