Resumen

GARCIA MILIAN, Ana Julia; DELGADO MARTINEZ, Ibis  y  YERA ALOS, Isis. Indicaciones del meprobamato en personas de 60 años de edad y más en Ciudad de La Habana, 2000-2001. Rev Cubana Farm [online]. 2003, vol.37, n.3, pp.1-1. ISSN 0034-7515.

Taking into account the evidences of an elevated consumption of meprobamate (10.4 % of the patients at the third age take it, and it accounts for 4.2 % of the total of drugs consumed by them), and an increase in the national consumption of the drug expressed in DDD (from 1996-3.4 to 1999-4.2/1 000 inhabitants), it was decided to carry out a study on the use of indication-prescription drugs that allowed to identify the most frequent diagnoses leading to the prescription of drugs and the specialties of the physicians prescribing it in Havana City, from September, 2000, to January, 2001. 86.6 % of the sample were surveyed and the indication of meprobamate was found in 11 affections. Arterial hypertension was the most common affection and General Comprehensive Medicine was the specialty prescribing it the most. It was recommended to make an intervention on arterial hypertension in Primary Health Care and to educate the population on the treatment of this disease, as well as on the use and risks of meprobamate.

Palabras clave : MEPROBAMATE [therapeutic use]; HYPERTENSION [therapy]; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; MEPROBAMATE [adverse effects.].