Prescription trends of doctors against cardiovascular system diseases

Abstract

There are number of complications that make discomfort to the human body. But it seems particularly serious whenrelated to cardiac functions. The purpose of study is to investigate the prescription trend among the prescribers forcardiovascular diseases. Prescription of cardiac patients contain medications that are necessary to manage thecardiac complication and also consist of medication that prevent the patient from further problems like aspirin is use to prevent myocardial infarction. Required data was extracted from the prescriptions and then evaluated. Collected data was categorized on the basis of generics prescribed to the different cardiac patients. Then found out how many times a generic was prescribed. Statistical analysis was done using Microsoft Excel. After evaluation of the prescriptions it was seen that aspirin is most important drug in the prescriptions of heart diseases. It is the mostly prescribed medicine in cardiac patient and it was found in 146 prescriptions out of 150. And least prescribedgenerics were simvastatin and trimetazidine dihydrochloride. We extracted brands from the prescriptions and thentabulated against number of repetitions, then calculate the percentage of repetition of a brand, by dividing repetitions to total collected number of prescriptions, that were 150. it was found that most prescribed brand in heart diseases is ascard that contains aspirin. That prevent the patient from myocardial infarction and heart attack. Health practitioners and patients need to follow standard guidelines for medications to minimize further complication and to ensure a healthy nation.