Risk Factors for Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Treatment
Risk Factors for Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Treatment
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DOI:
10.1161/hypertensionaha.116.08729
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发表时间:
2017-06-01
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Tomaszewski, Maciej
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作者:
Gupta, Pankaj;Patel, Prashanth;Tomaszewski, Maciej
Nonadherence to antihypertensive treatment is a critical contributor to suboptimal blood pressure control. There are limited and heterogeneous data on the risk factors for nonadherence because few studies used objective-direct diagnostic methods. We used high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry of urine and serum to detect nonadherence and explored its association with the main demographic-and therapy-related factors in 1348 patients with hypertension from 2 European countries. The rates of nonadherence to antihypertensive treatment were 41.6% and 31.5% in the UK and Czech populations, respectively. Nonadherence was inversely related to age and male sex. Each increase in the number of antihypertensive medications led to 85% and 77% increase in nonadherence (P