PERBEDAAN EFEKTIVITAS PEMBERIAN PISANG TANDUK (Musa paradisiaca) DAN MADU SUMBAWA TERHADAP PENURUNAN TEKANAN DARAH PADA LANSIA DENGAN HIPERTENSI DI BSLU MANDALIKA PROVINSI NTB

Abstract

Hypertension is an increase blood pressure to over 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure to over 90 mmHg. The most by elderly is hypertension. Hypertension may be treated with non-pharmacological medics such as tanduk banana (Musa paradisiaca) and Sumbawa honey. The contecnt of helium in bana may function as diuretic that change the activity of angiontensin rennin system that broaden the diameter of blood vessel to decrease blood pressure. Flavonoids in honey cloud function as vasodilator of blood pressure and diuretic. This research is aimed at determining the differences of effectiveness of providing tanduk banana (Musa paradisiaca) and sumbawa honey on decrease of blood pressure of elderly with hypertension.

This research is Pre-Experiment study with two group pretest and post-test with two groups of treatment. The Samples were selected through random sampling and analysis with Wilcoxon mact pairt test and Mann-Whitney test with the significance of 5%.

Tanduk Banana  (Musa paradisiaca) and Honey Sumbawa the results showed that there is effect of providing, in decrease of blood pressure in the elderly  with hipertension.

There is no difference between the effectiveness of providing tanduk banana (Musa paradisiaca) and honey sumbawa in decreasing the blood pressure of elderly.

Key words: Tanduk banana (Musa paradisiaca), Sumbawa honey, elderly, hypertension.