Differences of Medical Adherence on the Level I and Level II of Hypertension Patients in Kalideres Sub-District Primary Health Center Year of 2019

Abstract

: One of the non-communicable diseases is hypertension, this disease is a health problem because we are not aware that we are including hypertensive sufferers and because of this unconsciousness causes medical related diseases to be excluded. Hypertension is an increase in blood pressure which will discuss target organs such as stroke (for the brain), coronary heart disease (for heart vessels) and right ventricular hypertrophy / left ventricular hypertrophy (for the heart muscle) with the main target is the stroke that brings high mortality. Hypertension is a condition where systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and diastolic pressure ≥ 90 mmHg. The purpose of this study was to study the differences of medical adherence on the Level I and Level II of hypertension patients in Kalideres Sub-district Primary Health Center Year of 2019. This study used quantitative with cross-sectional research methods with a sample of 117 people. Source of data analysis using Mann Whitney. Based on the result of Mann Whitney analysis was found p-value is 0,000 that means there are differences in Medical Adherence on the Level I and Level II of Hypertension Patients.