Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology

Antihypertensive medications and chronopharmacology: Role of pharmacists in patient education

World Congress on Pharmacology

July 20-22, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Fahad I Al-Saikhan

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Clin Exp Pharmacol

Abstract:

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the practice and knowledge of Saudi pharmacists regarding chronopharmacology of antihypertensive drugs. Method: A descriptive cross ? sectional questionnaire based survey of randomly selected community pharmacists from Riyadh city in KSA in March and April 2014. Sample consisted of randomly selected 100 community pharmacists. Results: 100% of participants agreed that physical activity, stress, environmental, and endocrine alterations affect daily blood pressure. However, 35% did not know that blood pressure has two peaks; around 9:00 am and 7:00 pm, and one drop around 3:00 am. In addition, 37% of pharmacists did not know whether or not evening dose of nifedipine GITS was more successful in decreasing the blood pressure as compared to the early hours in the morning. Conclusion: Our study shows that knowledge and practice of community pharmacists need further improvement about interaction between time of administration of anti-hypertensive drugs and its efficacy.