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SUBMITTER: Gerretsen P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906154 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gerretsen Philip P Kim Julia J Shah Parita P Quilty Lena L Balakumar Thushanthi T Caravaggio Fernando F Plitman Eric E Chung Jun Ku JK Iwata Yusuke Y Pollock Bruce G BG Dash Satya S Sockalingam Sanjeev S Graff-Guerrero Ariel A
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 20180310 4
Impaired illness awareness or not accepting that one has hypertension (HTN) may be an important predictor of treatment adherence and optimal blood pressure control. The purpose of this study was to perform a systematic review of available instruments to evaluate HTN awareness, and subsequently present a novel scale that measures the core domains of subjective illness awareness in HTN. Based on the absence of any validated HTN specific measure identified through our review, the Blood Pressure Awa ...[more]