Antihypertensive medication persistence and adherence among non-Hispanic Asian US patients with hypertension and fee-for-service Medicare health insurance

Eunhee Choi, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Zhixin Wang, Chloe Fang, Matthew T Mefford, Kristi Reynolds, Lama Ghazi, Daichi Shimbo and Paul Muntner

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-15

Abstract: Background: Less than 50% of non-Hispanic Asian adults taking antihypertensive medication have controlled blood pressure. Methods: We compared non-persistence and low adherence to antihypertensive medication between non-Hispanic Asian and other race/ethnicity groups among US adults ≥66 years who initiated antihypertensive medication between 2011 and 2018 using a 5% random sample of Medicare beneficiaries (non-Hispanic Asian, n = 2,260; non-Hispanic White, n = 56,000; non-Hispanic Black, n = 5,792; Hispanic, n = 4,212; and Other, n = 1,423). Non-persistence was defined as not having antihypertensive medication available to take in the last 90 of 365 days following treatment initiation. Low adherence was defined as having antihypertensive medication available to take on

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