First-Fill Medication Discontinuations and Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Therapy: An Observational Study | Zendy

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First-Fill Medication Discontinuations and Nonadherence to Antihypertensive Therapy: An Observational Study

Author(s) -

Chris Evans,

Dean T. Eurich,

Alfred J. Rémillard,

Y. M. Shevchuk,

David Blackburn

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american journal of hypertension

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1941-7225

pISSN - 0895-7061

DOI - 10.1038/ajh.2011.198

Subject(s) - medicine , discontinuation , confidence interval , odds ratio , retrospective cohort study , deprescribing , cohort study , pediatrics , polypharmacy

Medication nonadherence is a barrier to successfully managing hypertension, but little is known about the contribution that immediate discontinuations have on antihypertensive (AHT) nonadherence. The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of new AHT users who discontinue after a single dispensation, and to examine potential predictors of these discontinuations.

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