Do Patients With High Vascular Risk Take Antihypertensive Medication Correctly? Cumple-MEMS Study

A qualitative exploration of hypertensive patients’ perception towards quality use of medication and hypertension management at the community level

“…Consistent with the study findings by Holt and colleagues, the current study highlighted various natures of barrier to adherence among hypertensive patients. 33 Consistent with the previous studies 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , one of the medication adherence’s barrier was taking too many medication at one time. In line with the study reported by Cazorla and Rodriguez 39 , the present study demonstrated that eight participants did not take medication at the same time every day and a minority of them stopped medication when their blood pressure were at the optimal range.…”

Compliance factors in patients with arterial hypertension (univariate statistical analysis data)

“…[11]. Причем данный тип отношения к гипотензив-ной терапии диагностируется, зачастую, не со слов боль-ных, а с помощью специальных устройств для электрон-ного контроля приема лекарств [14]. Различаются и изуча-емые контингенты пациентов.…”

“…Различаются и изуча-емые контингенты пациентов. Обычно исследуют амбу-латорных больных [14]. А в нашей работе анализировали данные пациентов, поступивших в кардиологическую клинику.…”

“…ентность наблюдается у пациентов, принимающих 5 пре-паратов и более [14,17]. Напротив, комплаентность отме-чается у больных, получающих комбинированные гипо-тензивные средства [7,15].…”

Non-compliance and therapeutic inertia: two unanswered questions in clinical practice

“…Today, many research studies 4 are carried out to analyze difficulties in clinical practice to overcome both problems. Mainly, they are performed with polymedicated patients with multiple diseases as therapeutic complexity may influence medication adherence and physicians accept borderline figures to avoid complicating treatment.…”