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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tao Liu, Xiexiong Zhao, Miao Huang, Yan Yang, Zhi Chen, Xin He, Xiaogang Li, Weihong Jiang
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Summary: This study aimed to explore the association between adherence to antihypertensive medication and clinical outcomes in adult patients with cancer. Nonadherence to antihypertensive medication was found to be common in cancer patients and was associated with higher overall mortality and cardiovascular mortality, as well as an increased risk of cardiovascular events. Thus, improving adherence to antihypertensive medication is crucial in cancer patients.
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Mongjam Meghachandra Singh, Saurav Basu, Heena Lalwani, Shivani Rao, Vansh Maheshwari, Sandeep Garg, Nandini Sharma
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Prashant Mathur, Vaitheeswaran Kulothungan, Sravya Leburu, Anand Krishnan, Himanshu Kumar Chaturvedi, Harshal Ramesh Salve, Ritvik Amarchand, Baridalyne Nongkynrih, P. Ganesh Kumar, Vinay K. S. Urs, Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, A. Laxmaiah, Manjit Boruah, Sanjeev Kumar, Binod Kumar Patro, Pankaja Ravi Raghav, Prabu Rajkumar, P. Sankara Sarma, Rinku Sharma, Muralidhar Tambe, K. R. Thankappan, N. Arlappa, Tulika Goswami Mahanta, Rajnish P. Joshi, Neeti Rustagi, Sonia Gupta, Binod Kumar Behera, Sangita Chandrakant Shelke, Abhiruchi Galhotra, Pranab Jyoti Bhuyan, Abhijit P. Pakhare, Dewesh Kumar, Roshan K. Topno, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Atulkumar Trivedi, Suneela Garg
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
NaRen QiMuge, Xu Fang, Baocheng Chang, Dong Mei Li, Yuanyuan Li
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Li-Zi Lin, Meng Gao, Xiang Xiao, Luke D. Knibbs, Lidia Morawska, Shyamali C. Dharmage, Joachim Heinrich, Bin Jalaludin, Shao Lin, Yuming Guo, Shu-Li Xu, Qi-Zhen Wu, Gongbo Chen, Bo-Yi Yang, Xiao-Wen Zeng, Yunjiang Yu, Li-Wen Hu, Guang-Hui Dong
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Basima A. Almomani, Bushra M. Hijazi, Oriana Awwad, Rawand A. Khasawneh
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Gary Chun-Yun Kang
Summary: This study aimed to determine the efficacy of technology-based interventions in improving adherence to antihypertensive medications. The results showed that several interventions significantly improved adherence and had a positive impact on blood pressure control. However, randomized controlled trials on technological interventions in this area are still limited.
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Nicholas Chiu, Julie Lauffenburger, Jessica Franklin, Niteesh Choudhry
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Ronnaug Eline Larsen, Are Hugo Pripp, Tonje Krogstad, Cecilie Johannessen Landmark, Lene Berge Holm
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
John P. Allegrante, M. Elaine Auld, Sundar Natarajan
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Matthew Zhao, Maria A. Rodriguez, Binhuan Wang, Elizabeth J. Santa Ana, Jennifer Friedberg, Yixin Fang, John P. Allegrante, Sundar Natarajan
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(2015)