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Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the antihypertensive medication adherence in patients who were newly diagnosed with hypertension in Korea. METHODS: Study subjects were diagnosed with hypertension for the first time by the General Health Screening in 2012 and were 65,919. As ind...

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Autores principales: Jeong, Hyoseon, Kim, Hyeongsu, Lee, Kunsei, Lee, Jung Hyun, Ahn, Hye Mi, Shin, Soon Ae, Kim, Vitna
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29165108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0619-6
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author Jeong, Hyoseon
Kim, Hyeongsu
Lee, Kunsei
Lee, Jung Hyun
Ahn, Hye Mi
Shin, Soon Ae
Kim, Vitna
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Kim, Hyeongsu
Lee, Kunsei
Lee, Jung Hyun
Ahn, Hye Mi
Shin, Soon Ae
Kim, Vitna
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description OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the antihypertensive medication adherence in patients who were newly diagnosed with hypertension in Korea. METHODS: Study subjects were diagnosed with hypertension for the first time by the General Health Screening in 2012 and were 65,919. As indices, visiting rate to medical institution, the antihypertensive prescription rate, medication possession ratio and the rate of appropriate medication adherence were used. The qualification data, the General Health Screening data and the health insurance claims data were used. RESUTLS: Visiting rate to medical institution within one-year was 42.3%. Gender, age, family history of hypertension, smoking status, drinking frequency, insurance type, BMI, hypertension status, blood glucose level and LDL-cholesterol level were significant variables for visiting a medical institution. Of the study subjects who visited a medical institution, the antihypertensive prescription rate was 89.1%. Medication possession ratio was 70.9% and the rate of appropriate medication adherence was 60.6%. Age, family history of hypertension, smoking status, BMI level, hypertension level, blood glucose level, status, and LDL-cholesterol level were significant variables for the antihypertensive prescription and gender, age, family history of hypertension, smoking status, BMI, hypertension status, and the time of the first visit to a medical institution were significant variables for appropriate medication adherence. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the antihypertensive medication adherence in patients who were newly diagnosed with hypertension was not relatively high in Korea. National Health Insurance Service should support an environment in which medical institutions and those diagnosed with hypertension can fulfill their roles.
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spelling pubmed-56648342017-11-08 Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea Jeong, Hyoseon Kim, Hyeongsu Lee, Kunsei Lee, Jung Hyun Ahn, Hye Mi Shin, Soon Ae Kim, Vitna Environ Health Prev Med Regular Article OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the antihypertensive medication adherence in patients who were newly diagnosed with hypertension in Korea. METHODS: Study subjects were diagnosed with hypertension for the first time by the General Health Screening in 2012 and were 65,919. As indices, visiting rate to medical institution, the antihypertensive prescription rate, medication possession ratio and the rate of appropriate medication adherence were used. The qualification data, the General Health Screening data and the health insurance claims data were used. RESUTLS: Visiting rate to medical institution within one-year was 42.3%. Gender, age, family history of hypertension, smoking status, drinking frequency, insurance type, BMI, hypertension status, blood glucose level and LDL-cholesterol level were significant variables for visiting a medical institution. Of the study subjects who visited a medical institution, the antihypertensive prescription rate was 89.1%. Medication possession ratio was 70.9% and the rate of appropriate medication adherence was 60.6%. Age, family history of hypertension, smoking status, BMI level, hypertension level, blood glucose level, status, and LDL-cholesterol level were significant variables for the antihypertensive prescription and gender, age, family history of hypertension, smoking status, BMI, hypertension status, and the time of the first visit to a medical institution were significant variables for appropriate medication adherence. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the antihypertensive medication adherence in patients who were newly diagnosed with hypertension was not relatively high in Korea. National Health Insurance Service should support an environment in which medical institutions and those diagnosed with hypertension can fulfill their roles. BioMed Central 2017-03-17 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5664834/ /pubmed/29165108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0619-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Jeong, Hyoseon
Kim, Hyeongsu
Lee, Kunsei
Lee, Jung Hyun
Ahn, Hye Mi
Shin, Soon Ae
Kim, Vitna
Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea
title Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea
title_full Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea
title_fullStr Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea
title_full_unstemmed Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea
title_short Medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in Korea
title_sort medical visits, antihypertensive prescriptions and medication adherence among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in korea
topic Regular Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29165108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0619-6
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