Psychological determinants of drug adherence and severity of hypertension in patients with apparently treatment-resistant vs. controlled hypertension.
Blood Press
; 31(1): 169-177, 2022 12.
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This study included 144 patients with Apparently-Treatment Resistant (ATRH) or controlled Hypertension: Patients with ATRH were more often poorly adherent to antihypertensive treatment than controlled hypertensive patients.In patients with ARTH but not patients with controlled hypertension, psychological traits were strong, independent predictors of drug adherence and severity of hypertension, over and above demographic and health-related factors.In patients with ATRH, the tendency to somatize, i.e. expressing somatic symptoms that cannot be adequately explained by organic findings was the most potent predictor of both poor drug adherence and severity of hypertension.These patients also often presented alterations in the expression of emotions. It may be hypothesised that subjects who have difficulties identifying and expressing emotions with words will express them by physical complaints, and, in the mid-long term, might develop overt diseases.In addition to more classical lifestyle and drug management and irrespective of their drug adherence level, patients with ATRH may benefit in priority from psychological evaluation and interventions. However, this needs to be studied in an interventional trial in the future.
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Hipertensão
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Anti-Hipertensivos
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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2022
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