Detecting Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Treatment
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Risk Factors for Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Treatment.
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 th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.117.09739