Effectiveness of zack’s cocoter avocado juice against blood pressure on old age hypertension patients in palembang

Abstract

Hypertension is a disorder of the blood vessels that cause the oxygen supply and nutrients carried by the blood is nutrients carried by the blood are inhibited until the body tissue in need. This study aims to determine the effect of avocado juice+young coconut water to elderly who suffer from hypertension in Palembang. This study using Systematic Random Sampling as a way to take the sample, each sample amounted to 30 people for treatment and 30 people for comparison. Then the treatment group given avocado juice+young coconut water and the comparison group got Marjan green syrup for 7 consecutive days. The results showed that there is effect of giving the avocado juice+young coconut water on the systolic blood pressure with p-value < (a) 0.05, but there is no effect of avocado juice+young coconut water on diastolic blood pressure. There is an effect of avocado juice+young coconut juice on decreasing systolic blood pressure.