Combined Effect of Income and Medication Adherence on Mortality in Newly Treated Hypertension: Nationwide Study of 16 Million Person‐Years

• Published in: Journal of the American Heart Association Vol. 8; no. 16; p. e013148
• Main Authors: Lee, Hokyou, Park, Jong Heon, Floyd, James S., Park, Sungha, Kim, Hyeon Chang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley and Sons Inc 20.08.2019; Wiley
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Antihypertensive Agents - therapeutic use; Cause of Death; Female; health disparities; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Humans; hypertension; Hypertension - diagnosis; Hypertension - drug therapy; income; Income - statistics & numerical data; Male; medication adherence; Medication Adherence - statistics & numerical data; Middle Aged; Mortality; Original Research; Proportional Hazards Models; real‐world data; Republic of Korea; Social Class; Republic of Korea; income; mortality; health disparities; medication adherence; hypertension; real‐world data

Background Low socioeconomic status and poor medication adherence are known to be associated with increased morbidity and mortality among patients with hypertension, but their combined effects have not been studied. We therefore evaluated the joint association of household income and medication adhe...