Poor hypertensive medication adherence was associated with unmet social needs. Young adults with youth-onset type 2 diabetes and hypertension, dyslipidemia, or nephropathy poorly adhere to ...

Almost half of adult patients with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) reported poor adherence to long-term medical and dietary therapy, with age younger than 40 years and low necessity beliefs being ...

Acknowledging and addressing patient treatment beliefs and perceptual barriers to adherence to asthma medication is necessary for designing ... that embarrassment contributed to poor adherence.

By some estimates, 60% of asthma-related hospital visits are caused by poor medication adherence. Medication lapses also raise a patient’s risk for asthma-related mortality.

The investigators discovered that 63% of the patients had suboptimal adherence (PDC <80%) to controller medication (66% of patients had 1 or more claim for OCS) in the 12 months prior to being ...

Data from a meta-analysis show that a 20% improvement in CV medication adherence could reduce risk for any CV event by 8% and risk for all-cause mortality by 12% among patients with CAD ...

Poor treatment adherence (poor compliance) means that people remain infectious for longer and are more likely to relapse and die. It also contributes to the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

The researchers assessed patients’ adherence to their inhalers with the Medication Adherence Scale (MARS), which consists of questions based on negative statements to limit social desirability bias.

High heart failure hospitalization and mortality rates could be due in part to poor medication adherence. A shared approach using multiple strategies may be the best way to combat the trend.

Improving Treatment Adherence in Atopic Dermatitis — We've got great treatments, says Steven Feldman, the key is getting patients to use them by Greg Laub , Director, Video, MedPage Today ...

Poor adherence to pain medication regimen, ... “Poor adherence, may, therefore, in part reflect the lack of relief from inadequate analgesic prescriptions,” said Dr. von Roenn.