Dinesh Kumar Upadhaya

Depatment of Pharmacology, Jaipur National University, India

Publications

• Research Article   
  Current Prescription Trends among Cardiology Patients
  Author(s): Nutakki Tulasi Uma Rani*, Dinesh Kumar Upadhaya and Rajesh Akki
  
  The study aims to understand the specific patterns and trends in the prescription of antihypertensive drugs among Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) patient. This was a prospective observational study over a period of 24 months on cardiovascular diseases patients attending Cardiology departments. The prescription of these patients was evaluated to understand the prescribing pattern of antihypertensive drugs. Monotherapy accounted for 34.5%, with Beta blockers most commonly prescribed. The majority of prescriptions 41.01% involved dual therapy, with β-blockers+ARB being most commonly prescribed combination. The most commonly prescribed triple therapy combination are β-blockers+2 diuretics. Among quadruple therapies, the most commonly used combination was ARB+β-blockers+2 Diuretics. ARB+CCB+(α+β) blocker+2 Diuretics were the only combination used in penta therapy. T.. Read More»
  

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