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Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents in Hawaii

INTRODUCTION Adherence to oral hypoglycemic agents is essential to reducing the poor health outcomes of populations at high risk for developing diabetes and its chronic complications. The goal of this study was to identify characteristics of patients in Hawaii least likely to adhere to oral hypoglycemic agents. METHODS This retrospective administrative data analysis included prescription refi...

Review: insulin monotherapy and insulin combined with oral hypoglycemic agents provide similar glycemic control.

Patterns of Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents: Patterns, Correlates, and Outcomes

Despite the development of effective pharmacological therapy to prevent both macrovascular and microvascular complications and adverse events, diabetes control remains sub-optimal. Poor adherence to recommended regimens is a causal factor in preventable morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. Subgroups of patients with differing longitudinal profiles of adherence may yield differing treat...

A Comparison of Data Driven-based Measures of Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents in Medicaid Patients

We evaluated and compared different methods for measuring adherence to Oral Antihyperglycemic Agents (OHA), based on the correlation between these measures and glycated hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) levels in Medicaid patients with Type 2 diabetes. An observational sample of 831 Medicaid patients with Type 2 diabetes who had HbA1c test results recorded between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2005 was...

Patterns of Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents and Glucose Control among Primary Care Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Researchers sought to examine whether there are patterns of oral hypoglycemic-agent adherence among primary-care patients with type 2 diabetes that are related to patient characteristics and clinical outcomes. Longitudinal analysis via growth curve mixture modeling was carried out to classify 180 patients who participated in an adherence intervention according to patterns of adherence to oral h...