Intensive management can improve blood pressure in non-adherent hypertensive patients

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that patients with uncontrolled hypertension respond to treatment intensification regardless of their degree of adherence to antihypertensive medications. This study, which has been published online in Hypertension could have an immediate impact on clinical care, as it challenges a widely held assumption.

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