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Achieving Patient Buy-In and Long Term Compliance with Antihypertensive Treatment

Garfield, Frances B.; Caro, J. Jaime - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 7 (2000) 1, pp. 13-20

. Patients move through 5 stages in their `readiness to comply'. Our study of over 700 patients with hypertension using brief …

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Hypertension Home Telemonitoring: Current Evidence and Recommendations for Future Studies

Jaana, Mirou; Pare, Guy; Sicotte, Claude - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 15 (2007) 1, pp. 19-31

large number of people experiencing hypertension worldwide and the burden of this medical condition, home blood pressure (BP … on the current evidence and trends of hypertension telemonitoring, and presents recommendations for future studies in …, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO using the key_words `hypertension', `blood pressure', `telemonitoring', `telecare …

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Pharmacoeconomics of Hypertension Management: The Place of Combination Therapy

Ambrosioni, Ettore - In: PharmacoEconomics 19 (2001) 4, pp. 337-347

Pharmacological treatment of hypertension has been shown to reduce the risk of stroke, coronary events, heart failure …

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A Cost-Utility Analysis of Losartan versus Atenolol in the Treatment of Hypertension with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Anis, Aslam H.; Sun, Huiying; Singh, Sonia; Woolcott, John - In: PharmacoEconomics 24 (2006) 4, pp. 387-400

Introduction: The LIFE (Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension) study demonstrated a 13% relative … risk reduction in the primary composite endpoint (myocardial infarction, stroke or death) for patients with hypertension … losartan with atenolol in the treatment of 67-year old patients with hypertension and LVH. Methods: A Markov state transition …

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Treatments to Reduce Cholesterol Levels, Blood Pressure and Smoking for the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Evaluative Study Carried Out in Spa...

Plans-Rubio, Pedro - In: PharmacoEconomics 13 (1998) 5, pp. 623-643

This study assessed the cost effectiveness of treatments for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease in Spain, which included smoking cessation and reductions in blood cholesterol levels and BP. Cost-effectiveness ratios (measured in terms of $US per life-year gained) ranged from...

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Cost Effectiveness of an Adherence-Improving Programme in Hypertensive Patients

Brunenberg, Danielle E.M.; Wetzels, Gwenn E.C.; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 25 (2007) 3, pp. 239-251

Background: Non-adherence to antihypertensive drugs is high, and the economic consequences of non-adherence may be substantial. The Medication Events Monitoring System (MEMS), which is a method to improve adherence, has been shown to be a useful tool for the management of adherence problems....

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Cote, Isabelle; Gregoire, Jean-Pierre; Moisan, Jocelyne - In: PharmacoEconomics 18 (2000) 5, pp. 435-450

In hypertension, tolerability of drug treatment is important because individuals may see the use of antihypertensive …

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Pharmacoeconomic Burden of Undertreating Hypertension

Degli Esposti, Luca; Valpiani, Giorgia - In: PharmacoEconomics 22 (2004) 14, pp. 907-928

cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and in containing the cost of managing hypertension and its complications. Nevertheless, the … half of treated patients do not achieve blood pressure level control. Undertreating hypertension is the leading cause of … failure in drug therapy effectiveness and cost effectiveness. The pharmacoeconomic burden of undertreating hypertension can be …

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HYPERTENSION AND LIFE SATISFACTION: A COMMENT AND REPLICATION OF BLANCHFLOWER AND OSWALD (2007)

Mojon-Azzi, Stefania; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007

This study examines the relationship between hypertension and life satisfaction using objective measures of … hypertension from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Our results confirm the analysis in Blanchflower …

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Evaluation of Patients with Hypertension: Diagnosis, Screening and Risk Stratification

Barenbrock, Michael; Hausberg, Martin; Spieker, Claus - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 5 (1999) 5, pp. 263-271

Hypertension has been defined as blood pressure levels of 140/90mm Hg or greater. This has been arbitrarily based on … hypertension. Out-of-office self-measurements of blood pressure or 24-hour blood pressure recordings provide useful additional … information and can help to exclude `white coat hypertension' or office hypertension. The objective of screening patients with …

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