Effectiveness of Garlic intake on Blood Pressure among patients with Hypertension

“An experimental study to assess the effectiveness of Garlic intake on blood pressure among patients with hypertension attending out patient unit in selected hospital at Madurai”. The experimental approach was used for this study. The design adopted for the study was quasi experimental pre test post test control group design. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects with hypertension. The samples consisted of 60 patients, in that 30 were in experimental group and 30 were in control group. The experimental group was treated only with garlic per day for continuous 15 days and the control group was treated with anti hypertensive drugs. The tool used was Bio-physiological measurement (sphygmomanometer). The descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The major study findings were the mean blood pressure level after administration of Garlic intake among the patient with hypertension was less than mean blood pressure level before administration of Garlic therapy. (‘t’ 15.2 and 7.6 df = 29). The mean blood pressure level after administration of Garlic intake (‘t’ 9.64 p > 0.05) among the patient with hypertension was lesser than the mean blood pressure level of the control group (‘t’ 3.27 p > 0.05). There was no association between post test blood pressure levels with selected demographic variables such as age, sex, occupation, education, duration of illness, dietary pattern except BMI. Based on the findings of the study, a longitudinal study to assess the effectiveness of garlic intake in maintaining blood pressure level and also to assess the effectiveness of garlic intake can be tested for other disease conditions like hyperlipidemia and other cardiac diseases was recommended for the future study