The analysis of the sale of antihypertensive drugs in the pharmacies of Кyiv

Abstract

Antihypertensive drugs (AHD) belong to the category of the most commonly used drugs in the pharmaceutical market of Ukraine. This is due to the significant prevalence of arterial hypertension (AH) in many countries of the world, including Ukraine. According to official statistics, over 12 million patients with high blood pressure are registered in Ukraine, such patients make about 36 % of the population in European countries and the USA. Patients with hypertension often have to take AHD, so the result of treatment depends not only on the possibilities of modern diagnostics, professionalism of doctors, but also on the availability of the necessary assortment of AHD, their cost, financial ability of the payers.