ESC 2026: True impact of poor medicine adherence laid bare in hypertensive patients - Pharmaceutical Technology

Study shows that those with low adherence of blood pressure-lowering drugs had significantly impaired therapeutic effect. Study shows that those with low adherence of blood pressure-lowering drugs had significantly impaired therapeutic effect. Despite their high efficacy in reducing cardiovascular events, many patients do not take hypertension treatments as prescribed. Credit: Anatoliy Cherkas/Shutterstock.com. Patients who do not take blood pressure-lowering medication as prescribed are deriving little-to-no therapeutic benefit in cardiovascular disease, research shows. The study, full data of which will be presented at the upcoming European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Munich, Germany, is the first of its kind to…

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