Compliance and blood pressure control.

Compliance and blood pressure control.

Compliance with medical therapy in general is often low, and compliance with blood pressure treatment is no better. Numerous studies have shown that patients frequently drop out of treatment for hypertension. Furthermore, even when patients stay in treatment, they often take their medications in a way quite dissimilar from that prescribed. Identifying noncompliant patients is important but not ...

National project of blood pressure control: Do's and don't's

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Compliance with the Prescription of Antihypertensive Medications and Blood Pressure Control in Primary Care

Background: Hypertension is the most prevalent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and its proper control can prevent the high morbidity and mortality associated with this disease. Objective: To assess the degree of compliance of antihypertensive prescriptions with the VI Brazilian Guidelines on Hypertension and the blood pressure control rate in primary care. Methods: Cross-sectional s...

Growth in utero, adult blood pressure, and arterial compliance.

OBJECTIVES To examine the relation between disproportionate fetal growth and adult blood pressure and to investigate whether arterial compliance in adult life is related to early development. DESIGN A follow up study of a group of men and women whose birth weights and other measurements of body size had been recorded at birth. SETTING Home and outpatient study. SUBJECTS 337 men and women ...

Gender and blood pressure control.