Ways to increase adherence to antihypertensive therapy

Can adherence to antihypertensive therapy be used to promote adherence to statin therapy?

OBJECTIVE To compare adherence with statin therapy in patients switching to single-pill amlodipine besylate/atorvastatin calcium with patients adding a separate statin to their amlodipine regimen. METHODS We identified hypertensive patients prescribed amlodipine who switched to amlodipine/atorvastatin (switch) or added a statin to their amlodipine regimen (add-on) from July 2004 to June 2007....

How to Screen for Non-Adherence to Antihypertensive Therapy

The quality of assessment of non-adherence to treatment in hypertensive is poor. Within this review, we discuss the different methods used to assess adherence to blood-pressure-lowering medications in hypertension patients. Subjective reports such as physicians' perceptions are inaccurate, and questionnaires completed by patients tend to overreport adherence and show a low diagnostic specificit...

Adherence to antihypertensive therapy among heart transplant recipients

INTRODUCTION Adherence to therapeutic recommendations, concerning in particular drug administration, diet and healthy life style, is essential to obtain optimal medical treatment effects. Elevated blood pressure is an extremely important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure and stroke, as well as chronic kidney disease. AIM The aim of ...

Poor 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...

A new delivery model to increase adherence to methadone maintenance treatment