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MANAGEMENT OF HYPERTENSION IN ACUTE STROKE PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
*Santhosh Reddy Gopu, Y. Shirisha, Babloo Yadav, Dr. P. Aravinda Reddy
ABSTRACT
Objective: The study aimed to manage the hypertension in acute stroke patients in a tertiary care hospital with effective anti-hypertensive drugs. Methodology: An observational study has been guided in the in-patient ward of neurology department in tertiary care hospital. The data was collected from the in-patient department, considering inclusion and exclusion criteria for six months and a total of 135 patients were analysed with data collection forms. Blood pressure was monitored throughout the day before and after admiration of a drug. The average mean arterial pressure was calculated per day. Statical tools like Anova test were applied to the data by using SPSS software. Result: In our study among 135 patients, 64% were males and 36% were females, our study has relatives' high number of patients i.e., 51.1% above the age group 61 years, whereas 444 & 44 is in between the age group of 41-60 & 20-40. There is a significance difference observed, between telmisartan and nifedipine (p=0.02.0.03). This concludes telmisartan is effective when compared to nifedipine and in between nifedipine and Labetalol (p=0.040.003), this concludes that nifedipine is effective than labetalol. Conclusion: In this study, we concluded that Telmisartan and labetalol was found to be effective with fewer side effects for managing the hypertension in acute stroke patients.
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