Lifestyle of hypertensive patients and their drug compliance

ABSTRACT

Hypertension is increasing at an alarming rate in Jordan. The present study was done with the help of 100 hypertensive Jordanian patients. A questionnaire designed specifically for this new study in Jordan was used. The independent variables were patient background and lifestyle, clinical findings, medications used, alternative therapies and drug compliance. The results were analyzed thoroughly and the findings showed that family history, smoking, stress, obesity, age, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and sedentary lifestyle were the major concomitant risk factors among hypertensive patients. The proportion of each antihypertensive drug prescribed by physicians was mentioned. Such result serve as a reference for physicians, pharmacists, drug manufacturers, and drug distributors, in order to find the place of any studied drug either in the therapy or in the drug marketing in Jordan