Certain Lifestyle Adjustments as an Alternative Remedy to Reduce the Trends in Preventive Cardiovascular Drug-prescriptions and Thereby Their Arising Ecotoxic Drug-Waste.

Rihawi, Amr (2022) Certain Lifestyle Adjustments as an Alternative Remedy to Reduce the Trends in Preventive Cardiovascular Drug-prescriptions and Thereby Their Arising Ecotoxic Drug-Waste. Bachelor's Project, Pharmacy.

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Abstract

Background: The frequent use of blood pressure and cardiac muscle regulating agents has led to an increase in their retained hazardous drug-waste found within water treatment plants in the Netherlands. Since then, more nature friendly alternatives have emerged to replace preventive cardiovascular agents, and by that to reduce their chemical waste. A set of lifestyle alterations such as smoking cessation and an improved physical activity have been studied in research trials to investigate their ability to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. Objective: The goal of this thesis is to investigate whether certain interventive lifestyle improvements would present a new therapy to reduce the frequent use of preventive cardiovascular drugs through cardiovascular health promotion. The ultimate goal by this replacement is to lower the retained drug-waste of these chemical agents, which would be environmentally and economically beneficial. Methods: The database (IADB) was used to display the volume of the annual prescriptions of ACEIs and ARBs for both men and women aged 40 years and higher from 2010 until 2020. To investigate the gender and age association with the occurrence and the pathogenesis of cardiovascular abnormalities, the tested population was subdivided into four groups; those aged from 40 to 65 years, those who are older than 65, and men and women aged 40 or above separately. However, the groups were not divided based on the class of used medication. For each trend, the pre

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor's Project)
Supervisor name:	Hak, E.
Degree programme:	Pharmacy
Thesis type:	Bachelor's Project
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2022 12:55
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2022 12:55
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/27391

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