Vol. 4, Issue 6 (2015)

Aim: The present drug utilization study was undertaken to study the pattern of the use of antihypertensives and appropriateness of their use in a teaching hospital.

Material and Method: Data was collected from 59 newly diagnosed

hypertensive patients from the Medicine OPD. Male patients outnumbered the female patients in the study. 28 patients belonged to stage 1 hypertension and 31 patients belonged to stage 2 hypertension.

Result: When overall drug utilization was considered, irrespective of stage of hypertension/kind of therapy, it was diuretic (50.85%) which was most utilized followed by CCBs (45.76%), â-blockers (35.59%), ARBs (20.34%) and ACEIs (16.95%). This is in concordance with the JNC 7 guidelines.

Conclusion: DDD/1000/day was found to be more for amlodipine, ramipril and atenolol.