The Effect of Cucumber Juice on Reducing Blood Pressure in Hypertension Patients at Dr. RM Djoelham Hospital in Binjai in 2024

Abstract

Hypertension or high blood pressure is an increase in blood pressure in the arteries. Where hyper which means excessive, and tension which means pressure / tension, so hypertension is a disorder of the circulatory system which causes an increase in blood pressure above normal values. This type of research is a correlation study using a quasi-experimental study design. The aim of the research is to find out the effect of giving cucumber juice on reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients at RSUD Dr RM Djoelham Binjai in 2022. In this study the sampling technique used was to take 20% of the total The existing population is the number of samples of 60 people. The results of testing the hypothesis to see the relationship between variables X and Y are with a significant level (α) = 5% (0.05) and df = 1 taken p.value = 0.044 at df = 1 where sig < (α) (0.044 <0.05) then H0 is rejected so it means that there is an effect of giving cucumber juice to reducing blood pressure in hypertensive patients at Dr. RM Djoelham Binjai in 2024. The results of this study are expected to motivate patients about the effects of hypertension and cucumber juice.