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Drug adherence and the incidence of coronary heart disease- and stroke-specific mortality among 218,047 patients newly prescribed an antihypertensive medication: A five-year cohort study

BACKGROUND: Randomized trials have shown that optimal adherence to antihypertensive agents could protect against cardiovascular diseases, but whether adherence reduces cardiovascular deaths in community settings has not been explored so fully. This study evaluates the association between antihyperte...

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Autores principales: Wong, Martin C.S., Tam, Wilson W.S., Cheung, Clement S.K., Wang, Harry H.X., Tong, Ellen L.H., Sek, Antonio C.H., Yan, Bryan P.Y., Cheung, N.T., Leeder, Stephen, Yu, C.M., Griffiths, Sian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ireland Ltd. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7114239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23174167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.10.048