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Adherence to cardiovascular medication : a review of systematic reviews

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Date
29/05/2018
Author
Leslie, K.H.
McCowan, C.
Pell, J.P.
Keywords
Behaviour
Circulatory disease
Systematic review
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
ZA4050 Electronic information resources
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Abstract
Background: Use of cardiovascular medication has increased over time, especially for primary and secondary prevention, with polypharmacy common. Methods: Review of published systematic reviews of the factors and outcomes associated with adherence to cardiovascular medication using MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL and PsycINFO databases. Quality was assessed using the AMSTAR tool. Results: Of 789 systematic reviews identified, 45 met the inclusion criteria and passed the quality assessment; 34 focused on factors associated with adherence, and 11 on outcomes. High heterogeneity, both between and within reviews, precluded meta-analysis and so a pooled estimate of adherence levels could not be derived. Adherence was associated with disease factors, therapy factors, healthcare factors, patient factors and social factors, though with some inconsistencies. In total, 91% of reviews addressing outcomes reported that low adherence was associated with poorer clinical and economic endpoints. Conclusions: Factors from across five key domains relate to non-adherence to cardiovascular medications, and may contribute to poorer clinical outcomes. Interventions to improve adherence should be developed to address modifiable factors and targeted at those at highest risk of non-adherence. Adherence research is highly heterogeneous to-date and efforts to standardize this should be implemented to improve comparability.
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Leslie , K H , McCowan , C & Pell , J P 2018 , ' Adherence to cardiovascular medication : a review of systematic reviews ' , Journal of Public Health . https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy088
Publication
Journal of Public Health
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy088
ISSN
1741-3842
Type
Journal item
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse,distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Work supported by Medical Research Council (MRC) [MR/N013166/1 to K.H.L.]
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URL
http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/161670/
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16984

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