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BACKGROUND: Evaluate the effect of a community pharmaceutical intervention on the control of blood pressure in hypertensive patients treated pharmacologically. METHODS: A cluster-randomized clinical trial of 6 months was carried out. It was conducted in the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Sixty-three community pharmacies and 347 patients completed the study. Intervention patients received the community pharmaceutical intervention based on a protocol that addresses the individual needs of each patient related to the control of their blood pressure, which included Health Education, Pharmacotherapy Follow-up and 24 h Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement. Control patients received usual care in the community pharmacy. RESULTS: The pharmaceutical intervention resulted in better control of blood pressure (85.8% vs. 66.3% p < 0.001), lower use of emergencies (p = 0.002) and improvement trends in the physical components of quality of life, measured by SF-36 questionnaire, after 6 months of pharmaceutical intervention. No significant changes were observed for any of these variables in the control group. There were also detected 354 negative medication-related outcomes that were satisfactorily resolved in a 74.9% of the cases and 330 healthcare education interventions and 29 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitorings were performed in order to increase adherence to pharmacological treatment and minimize Negative Outcomes associated with Medication and prevent medication-related problems. CONCLUSIONS: Community pharmaceutical intervention can increase hypertensive patients with controlled blood pressure, after 6 months, compared with usual care.
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Objetivo: Evaluar el consumo de lorazepam en la Región de Murcia, concretamente en el municipio de Mula, durante el periodo 2012-2018, consideran-do las variables edad y sexo.Método: Estudio descriptivo trasversal, donde se investiga el consumo de Benzodiacepinas en una población concreta durante el periodo 2012 2018. Las variables recogidas fueron el sexo, la edad y la Dosis Diaria Definida prescrita. Los datos corres-ponden a las dispensaciones de Lorazepam en las oficinas de farmacia del municipio de Mula, facilita-dos por la Dirección General de Asistencia Sanita-ria. Se calcularon las Dosis diaria por habitante y día por 1000 habitantes y se establecieron median-te mediana y rangos intercuartílicos p25 y p75 los grupos para posteriores comparaciones.Resultados: El consumo global durante el periodo estudiado aumento un 0,42%. En los hombres se incrementó un 21,4%, mientras que en las mujeres disminuyó un 7,5%. Sin embargo, en las mujeres el consumo se produce a dosis más elevadas, encon-trándose diferencias significativas en el consumo de lorazepam entre grupos al analizar por sexo. El análisis por edades mostró un aumento significa-tivo de consumo conforme aumentaba la edad de los pacientes. Conclusión: El consumo de benzodiacepinas es elevado a medida que avanza la edad, de manera más acuciante en las mujeres, pudiendo esto incidir sobre los efectos adversos asociados a este grupo de fármacos y presentando un importante proble-ma de salud pública.(AU)
Objective: To evaluate the consumption of loraz-epam in the Region of Murcia, specifically in the dis-trict of Mula, during the period 2012-2018, consider-ing age and sex variables.Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study, where the use of benzodiazepines in a specific popula-tion during the period 2012 - 2018 is investigated. The variables collected were sex, age and the prescribed Defined Daily Dose. The data corre-spond to the dispensations of Lorazepam in the pharmacy offices of the disctrict of Mula, provided by the Health Assistance General Directorate. Daily dose per inhabitant and per 1000 inhabitants were calculated and the groups median and interquar-tile ranges were established p25 and p75 for later comparisons.Results: Overall consumption over the period increased by 0.42%. In men it increased by 21.4%, while in women it decreased by 7.5%. However, in women, consumption was at higher doses, bet-wand significant differences were found in lora-zepam consumption een groups when analyzed by sex. The analysis by age showed a significant increase in consumption as the age of the patients increased.Conclusion: The consumption of benzodiazepines is high with increasing age, more so in women, and this may have an impact on the adverse effects associated with this group of drugs and present an important public health problem.(AU)
