Analysis of the Relevance of Hypertension Medication and Influenza in Taiwan by National Health Insurance Research Database

[[abstract]]由於現今社會裡，人們的飲食常攝取了過量的動物性脂肪，身體內的膽固醇含量增加，使得高血壓(Hypertension /HTN)疾病成為現代人的文明病，長期處於國民十大死因之一。而此類病患須長期服用降高血壓藥物，為台灣重要慢性病之一。在臨床醫生的長期觀察之下，其藥物極有可能是導致高血壓患者較常人更容易罹患流行性感冒的原因之一。 本研究主要利用全民健保資料庫，分析探討台灣地區2004年至2013高血壓與流行性感冒的共病關係。追蹤高血壓與流行性感冒發生率之相對關係，取樣流行性感冒人數為19097人，其中女性為8807人(46.1%) 少於男性10290人(53.9%)，對照年齡分布發現，年齡低於30歲罹患流感人數較多。並且，利用統計方法分析四種不同功能的降高血壓藥物與流感之關聯性。希冀藉由本研究探討其藥物與流行性感冒的關聯性，降低高血壓患者容易罹患流行性感冒的發生率，提供病人更好的醫療與照護，並減少醫療資源的誤用與浪費。 In today's society, people's diet often absorb contain too much animal fat that increase cholesterol content in their body. Hypertension (HTN) disease has become a modern civilized disease, it’s long-term cause national death in one of the top ten. And HTN disease patients need to take antihypertensive drugs for a long time, which is one of the most important chronic diseases in Taiwan. Under the long-term observation of clinicians, the drug is most likely to be one of the reasons that people with HTN disease are more susceptible to influenza than the common people. The data for this study were collected from the Bureau of Nation Health Insurance database. With the data form 2004 to 2013, the study aims to deliberate the comorbidity of influenza and HTN disease. First, the ICD_9 codes of influenza disorders are used to extract sample patients. There are 8807 female sample patients and 11290 male. As a matter of ages, under the age of 30 persons are in majority. SPSS 13.0 are used to analyze the comorbidity of influenza and HTN disease. Using SPSS to analyze the correlation between four different functions of HTN disease drugs and influenza. Hope this study to explore HTN disease drugs’ association with influenza, reduce the incidence of influenza to HTN disease patients, provide better medical care and care, and reduce the misuse and waste of medical resources