Adherence to antihypertensive therapy prior to the first presentation of stroke in hypertensive adults: population-based study

News Thursday, July 18th, 2013

Eur Heart J : 7/16/13

Aims Antihypertensive drug therapy is a major strategy of stroke prevention among hypertensive patients. The aim of this study was to estimate the excess risk of stroke associated with non-adherence to antihypertensive drug therapy among hypertensive patients.

Methods and results We conducted a population-based study using records from Finnish national registers for 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2007. Of the 73 527 hypertensive patients aged 30 years or older and without pre-existing stroke or cardiovascular disease, 2144 died from stroke and 24 560 were hospitalized due to stroke during the follow-up.  Read more

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