Jurnal EduHealth
Vol. 13 No. 02 (2022): Jurnal eduHealth, December, 2022

Identification Of Cholestrol Level Testing HDL And LDL In Hypertension Patients At Santa Elisabeth Medan Hospital

Cornelius Manik (STIKes Santa Elisabeh Medan)
Putri Hartanti Hulu (STIKes Santa Elisabeth Medan)
Rica Vera Br Tarigan (STIKes Santa Elisabeth Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Oct 2022

Abstract

Number of people with hypertension continues to increase every year, there will be 1.5 billion people affected by hypertension, and every year 9, 4 million people died due to hypertension and its complications. The supporting examination for hypertension is an examination of the total levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol. This study aims to identify the examination of HDL and LDL cholesterol levels in patients with hypertension at Santa Elisabeth Hospital Medan 2022. This study used a descriptive analytic design. The population was obtained from medical record data, namely all inpatients and outpatients suffering from hypertension at Santa Elisabeth Hospital Medan for the last 3 months from January to March 2022 as many as 278 people with a total sample of 73 using purposive sampling technique. The examination was carried out using an automated chemistry analyzer Siemens dimension EXL 200. The results showed that more hypertensive respondents had abnormal HDL levels as many as 38 respondents (52.1%) and more than 69 respondents (94.5) had normal LDL levels. %). So from these results it was concluded that there was an abnormal increase in HDL levels and a decrease in LDL levels in patients with hypertension

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Journal Info

Abbrev

healt

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Public Health Veterinary

Description

The EduHealt journal contains articles based on research results or equivalent in the health field. The research includes research related to the community environment as well as in the general public. Articles published in this journal have never been published/published by other ...