PENGARUH PEMBERIAN JUS MENTIMUN TERHADAP KONTROL TEKANAN DARAH LANSIA DENGAN HIPERTENSI GRADE SATU DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS KUMUN

Abstract

High blood pressure or hypertension is one of the most important risk factors that can lead to cerebrovascular disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, coronary heart disease and kidney disease which have high morbidity and mortality rates. According to the World Health Organization, it is known that people with hypertension have increased from 940 million people in 2019 to 970 million people in 2020 and is expected to increase in 2025 to 1.5 billion or about 29.2% of the total world population. , the increase in cases of hypertension occurs, especially in developing countries such as in Indonesia, around 80%. The purpose of this study was to determine the average blood pressure before and after administration of cucumber juice and to determine the effect of giving cucumber juice on blood pressure control of the elderly with hypertension in the Kumun Health Center Working Area. Subjective and objective data collection was carried out using observation methods, interview methods, measurement methods, standard operating procedures for making cucumber juice. The results of this study indicate the effect of giving cucumber juice on blood pressure control in the elderly with hypertension. With the results of the statistical test using the Paired t test to reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure, p value = 0.000 (p≤ 0.05), it can be concluded that there is an effect of cucumber juice on reducing blood pressure in elderly people with hypertension. It is hoped that people with hypertension can continue therapy using cucumber juice as an alternative treatment that is cheap, easy, and practical in lowering blood pressure in people with hypertension. For Other Researchers It is hoped that the results of this study can be used as initial data in conducting further research using different variables and different research locations