• Nallely Aguiñaga-Martínez, Juan de Dios Zavala-Rubio, Melissa Ramírez-Ruíz, Alberto J Hernández-Garza, Martín Segura-Chico, Miriam J De la Mata-Márquez, and Dolores Mino-León.
• Unidad de Medicina Familiar 24, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas.
• Gac Med Mex. 2024 Jan 1; 160 (2): 154160154-160.

BackgroundIt has been documented that NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and antirheumatic drugs) reduce the effectiveness of some antihypertensive drugs.ObjectiveAnalyze the prescription of NSAID and the variables associated in outpatients with hypertension and explore some characteristics of the physicians.Material And MethodsCross-sectional study, included patients with hypertension from the Family Medicine Unit No. 24 in Mante, Tamaulipas. From the patients, sociodemographic data, clinical history and pharmacological treatments were obtained. From the physicians, sociodemographic and academic information were collected.ResultsMean age of the patients was 63 ± 11 years and 31.7% were prescribed NSAIDs. When compare exposed versus non-exposed to NSAIDs, being in uncontrolled high blood pressure, uncontrolled hypertension, multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The variables associated to the prescription of NSAIDs were: uncontrolled hypertension, multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The 56.7% of the physicians were women, 83.3% with experience >10 years and 33.3% with current certification by the Council in Family Medicine.ConclusionsThe inappropriate prescription of NSAIDs revealed the need to implement actions to mitigate the potential risk for the hypertension patients to present a complication.Copyright: © 2024 Permanyer.

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