منابع مشابه
Nonadherence to antihypertensive drugs
BACKGROUND Hypertension drives the global burden of cardiovascular disease and its prevalence is estimated to increase by 30% by the year 2025. Nonadherence to chronic medication regimens is common; approximately 43% to 65.5% of patients who fail to adhere to prescribed regimens are hypertensive patients. Nonadherence to medications is a potential contributing factor to the occurrence of concom...
متن کاملPoor adherence to antihypertensive drugs.
In this 10-minute consultation by Mohammed Awais Hameed and colleagues (BMJ 2016;354:i3268, doi:10.1136/bmj.i3268), the final sentence of the first paragraph under the heading “Discuss risk” should not have read: “For example, ‘In a population of 100 people aged 40-69, with every 2 mm Hg rise in blood pressure, 10 people are at risk of dying from a stroke and seven people are at a risk of dying...
متن کاملAntihypertensive Drugs
Hypertension is one of the most serious concerns of modern medical practice. It is estimated that in the United States, as many as 60 million people are hypertensive or are being treated with antihypertensive drugs. Among the growing population of elderly Americans, some 15 million have high blood pressure. The level of blood pressure in itself is not a chief concern, since individuals with hig...
متن کاملTHE EFFECT OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE DRUGS IN THE SUPPRESSION OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS
The present investigation was undertaken to evaluate the effect of antihypertensive drugs on aortic atherogenesis in hypercholesterolemic rabbits. In enalapril and nifedipine treated rabbits aortic atherosclerotic plaque involvement was significantly decreased (p<0. Oland p<O. 05, respectively) as compared to the control group. However, in hydrochlorothiazide treated rabbits aortic atheroge...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.118.033360