Yomna E Dean, Karam R Motawea, Mohamed A Shebl, Sameh Samir Elawady, Kaamel Nuhu, Basel Abuzuaiter, Karen Awayda, Ahmed Mahmoud Fouad, Yousef Tanas, Raquel Batista, Ahmed Elsayed, Noheir A I F Hassan, Amro A El-Sakka, Walaa Hasan, Raabia Husain, Amanda Lois, Aryan Arora, Abhinav Arora, Elyas Ayad, Mohamed A Elbahaie, Jaffer Shah, Amr Shady, Debanik Chaudhuri, Hani Aiash
Adherence to antihypertensives is crucial for control of blood pressure. This study analyzed factors and interventions that could affect adherence to antihypertensives in the US. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase were searched on January 21, 2022 and December 25, 2023 for studies on the adherence to antihypertensives in the US. Nineteen studies and 23 545 747 patients were included in the analysis, which showed that adherence to antihypertensives was the highest among Whites (OR: 1.47, 95% CI 1...
March 15, 2024: Journal of Clinical Hypertension