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ABSTRACT: Supplementary Information
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40256-021-00505-6. Plain Language Summary Raised blood pressure (hypertension) is involved in the death of around 10.8 million people throughout the world each year. However, only about half of the people with hypertension are aware of their condition. In addition, many patients who are prescribed blood pressure-lowering medications do not take their pills regularly (intentional or nonintentional low adherence). Many doctors are not as strict as they should be in ensuring blood pressure control of their hypertensive patients (therapeutic inertia). This report presents ideas and data from a “first of its kind” symposium sponsored by Servier as part of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH)-International Society of Hypertension (ISH) 2021 ON-AIR meeting involving both patient and physicians. The report summarizes the ways in which low awareness, therapeutic inertia, and lack of adherence can be addressed and includes insights into patients’ perspectives. An ongoing global blood pressure screening program called May Measurement Month was discussed, which has detected almost a million people with untreated or inadequately treated hypertension worldwide since 2017. Recent ESH and ISH guidelines for managing hypertension now include recommendations on how to address low adherence and therapeutic inertia. Crucially, doctors should involve their patients with hypertension in decisions about their own treatment, which will help improve adherence to medication and ultimately reduce hypertension-related serious adverse events (e.g. heart attacks, strokes and deaths). Supplementary Information
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40256-021-00505-6.
SUBMITTER: Pathak A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8576089 | biostudies-literature |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature