Krousel-Wood MA, Thomas S, Jannu A, Muntner P, Morisky DE, Re RN: Low Adherence to Prescribed Antihypertension Medication and Poorer Quality of Life in Elderly Hypertensive Patients. Poster presented at American Heart Association, 2nd Scientific Conference on Compliance in H...
Objective To assess whether a low-dose triple combination antihypertensive medication would achieve better blood pressure (BP) control vs usual care. Design, Setting, and Participants Randomized, open-label trial of a low-dose triple BP therapy vs usual care for adults with hypertension (systolic BP...
The Effect of Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure on Medication Adherence and Lifestyle Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Self-monitoring of blood pressure (SMBP) can contribute to reduced blood pressure in people with hypertension. Potential mediators include increased medica... Benjamin,...
22 Hypertension was common (75.0% of participants) as was osteoarthritis (56.3% of participants). Only 2379 (14.2%) participants reported their health status as excellent (eTable in Supplement 2). Annual pill counts from returned bottles assessed medication adherence, which was 72.9% for those ...
Picking up and being able to take on a new medication, such as low-dose prednisone, actually is not difficult. And some of your patients later on you’ll bring it on to help stimulate energy, sometimes even occasionally improve appetite....
which is a clinical gold-standard risk stratification score for CVD integrating multiple factors including gender, age, race, smoking habit, family history, diabetes, lipid lowering and hypertension medication, CAC score extracted from CCT, and laboratory findings including cholesterol and blood pressure...
Hypertension. Diabetes (Type II). Liver disorders. Kidney failure. Lung disorders. Obesity. Studies have shown that some diseases like cancer can reduce sperm production. With these chronic conditions, a person will have a lot of metabolic shortcomings which, in fact, would reflect in their sex...
Exclusion criteria were: myocardial infarction, unstable angina, stroke, transient ischaemic attack or uncontrolled hypertension within 3 months of enrolment; coronary revascularisation within 6 months of enrolment; diabetes mellitus and/or other endocrine disorders; active liver disease or persistent elevat...
The evidence is here to show that this would be a real step change in hypertension control. Anthony Rodgers The primary outcome was the mean reduction in systolic BP, which was greater in the polypill group than in the other groups. The fixed-dose combinations also achieved BP control to les...
This study investigated the effects of low-dose acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) on blood pressure in pregnant women who were at risk of developing gestation... RC Hermida,DE Ayala,M Iglesias,... - 《Hypertension》 被引量: 222发表: 1997年 TIME‐DEPENDENT EFFECTS OF LOW‐DOSE ASPIRIN ADMINISTRATI...