TY - JOUR
AB - Editor Norman K. Hollenberg, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Departments of Medicine and Radiology, 15 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: nhollenberg@partners.org Van Wijk BLG, Shrank WH, Klungel OH, et al.: A cross-national study of the persistence of antihypertensive medication use in the elderly. J Hypertens 2008, 26: 145– 153. Abstract: Background: Little is known about cross-national comparisons of the persistence of antihypertensive medication treatment, trends in persistence, and factors associated with persis- tence. The aim of this study was to describe and compare patterns of antihypertensive drug use in a population of elderly patients in the United States (Pennsylvania), Canada (British Columbia), and the Netherlands. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted of Medicare enrollees in a state pharmacy assistance program in Pennsylvania (USA), residents of British Columbia (Canada), and residents of the Netherlands registered in the PHARMO database. Each population included patients 65 years and older who were initiated on blood pressure–lowering treatment between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2003 and had continuous follow-up for at least 365 days. In these populations, the proportion of patients with at least 180 consecutive days without medication available (nonpersis- tence) were identifi ed, as 
TI - Literature alert
JO - Current Hypertension Reports
DO - 10.1007/s11906-008-0047-5
DA - 2008-10-30
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/literature-alert-v03cDGO7xg
SP - 252
EP - 252
VL - 10
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -