Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of disability and mortality
globally. Premature fatal and non‐fatal CVD is considered to be largely preventable through …

Poor patient adherence is often the reason for suboptimal blood pressure control. Electronic
monitoring is one method of assessing adherence. The aim was to systematically review the …

Study purpose was to revise and examine the validity of the Medication Adherence Self-
Efficacy Scale (MASES) in an independent sample of 168 hypertensive African Americans …

Background Electronic monitoring is recommended for accurate measurement of medication
adherence but a possible limitation is that it may influence adherence. Purpose To test the …

williams a., manias e., walker r. & gorelik a.(2012) A multifactorial intervention to improve
blood pressure control in co‐existing diabetes and kidney disease: a pilot randomized …

We describe results from a clinical program, which aimed at improving adherence to
medications in children who had a liver transplant. We followed the medical outcomes of 23 …

Nonadherence, or not taking medications as prescribed, to antihypertensive medications
has been associated with uncontrolled hypertension. The authors analyzed data from …

Out‐of‐office blood pressure (BP) monitoring appears to be a very useful approach to
hypertension management insofar it allows to obtain multiple measurements in the usual …

Home blood pressure monitoring is a convenient and inexpensive technique to monitor
blood pressure in hypertensive patients. There are convincing data that home blood …

OBJECTIVE: Nurse telephone counseling can improve the management of chronic
conditions, but the effectiveness of this approach in underserved populations is unclear. This …