Greatly increased risk of stroke for patients who don't adhere to anti-hypertensive medication

(European Society of Cardiology) People with high blood pressure, who don't take their anti-hypertensive drug treatments when they should, have a greatly increased risk of suffering a stroke and dying from it compared to those who take their medication correctly. A study of 73,527 patients with high blood pressure, published in the European Heart Journal, found that non-adherent patients had a 5.7-fold higher risk than the adherent patients in the year they died from stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news