CURRENT TRENDS IN THE PRESCRIBING PATTERN AND RISK FACTOR ANALYSIS OF HEART FAILURE PATIENTS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Aim: The aim was to identify the prescription trends and risk factors that heart failure patients deal with.Background: Heart failure is a complicated clinical syndrome characterized by the heart's ability to pump or fill with blood may decrease.It is a highly growing worldwide public health problem.It continues to be a significant cause of illness and death worldwide.Auditing the prescription of heart failure patients and analyzing the risk factor of it can reduce morbidity, mortality, and health expenditure.The research made it easier to analyze the heart failure patients' prescription patterns and risk factors who were hospitalized at Mallige Hospital in Bangalore.The study objectives were to analyze prescribing patterns, identify risk factors, and evaluate prescription rationale.Result: In most of the cases it shows that 54.5% were male patients, the age group of most of the patients was 61-70 years.When risk factors were analyzed, it was discovered that hypertension (77.7% of risk factors) and low sodium diet (43.1%) were the two most frequently prescribed risk factors.The most commonly prescribed drug was diuretics (63.4%)Furosemide (62.6%) was the most common drug.Followed by statin and fibrinolytic namely, atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, aspirin, and clopidogrel.