TY - JOUR AU - Iqbal, Muhammad Shahid PY - 2020/11/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Drug Utilization Pattern among Stroke Patients – A Cross-sectional Insight JF - Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics (AJP) JA - AJP VL - 14 IS - 4 SE - ORIGINAL ARTICLES DO - 10.22377/ajp.v14i4.3826 UR - https://www.asiapharmaceutics.info/index.php/ajp/article/view/3826 SP - AB - <p>Objective: This study aimed to evaluate drug utilization pattern among stroke patients. Materials and Methods: A<br />cross-sectional study was conducted among 96 stroke patients aged from 30 to 92 years in a hospital in Malaysia.<br />A total of 88 patients were available for descriptive analysis and logistic regression analysis. Descriptive and<br />logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: On average, patients were aged 67.62 years (standard<br />deviation of 13.14) and had a higher incidence in Malay ethnicity (42.7%). Ischemic stroke accounts for 91.67%<br />of the study, with a slightly higher proportion of female patients (51.04%). Majority of stroke patient complaint<br />generalized body weakness as their major symptom (19.81%). Calcium channel blocker was found to be the most<br />used antihypertensive agent among stroke patients (40.9%) followed by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors<br />(ACEIs) (31.8%). Conclusion: Using logistic regression modeling, it was determined that the factors of a subject<br />would affect the choice of prescribing of ACEIs and anticoagulant drugs.</p> ER -