Adherence to medication according to sex and age in the CHARM programme

Although many patients with heart failure have incomplete adherence to prescribed medications, predisposing factors remain unclear. This analysis investigates factors associated with adherence, with particular emphasis on age and sex.

[1]  Emiko Saito,et al.  Social support as a predictor of health status among older adults living alone in Japan. , 2005, Nursing & health sciences.

[2]  Jeffrey A. Johnson,et al.  Development and Validation of a Survey to Assess Barriers to Drug Use in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure , 2002, Pharmacotherapy.

[3]  Jonathan F. Borus,et al.  Somatic symptom reporting in women and men , 2001, Journal of General Internal Medicine.

[4]  J. Chan,et al.  Effectiveness of telephone counselling by a pharmacist in reducing mortality in patients receiving polypharmacy: randomised controlled trial , 2006, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[5]  Matthew F. Muldoon,et al.  Psychological and cognitive function: Predictors of adherence with cholesterol lowering treatment , 2004, Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine.

[6]  B. Riegel,et al.  Gender differences in and factors related to self-care behaviors: a cross-sectional, correlational study of patients with heart failure. , 2008, International journal of nursing studies.

[7]  H. Krumholz,et al.  Polypharmacy and comorbidity in heart failure , 2003, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[8]  M. Pfeffer,et al.  Effects of candesartan on mortality and morbidity in patients with chronic heart failure: the CHARM-Overall programme , 2003, The Lancet.

[9]  W. Pelemans,et al.  Differences in psychosocial and behavioral profiles between heart failure patients admitted to cardiology and geriatric wards , 2003, European journal of heart failure.

[10]  M. Joffres,et al.  Medication Persistence Rates and Factors Associated with Persistence in Patients Following Stroke: A Cohort Study , 2008, BMC neurology.

[11]  Robert A McNutt,et al.  Decompensated heart failure: symptoms, patterns of onset, and contributing factors. , 2003, The American journal of medicine.

[12]  S. Sereika,et al.  Medication Adherence in Persons With Cardiovascular Disease , 2003, The Journal of cardiovascular nursing.

[13]  A. Lippman.  Adherence to medication. , 2005, The New England journal of medicine.

[14]  R. Califf,et al.  Long-Term Adherence to Evidence-Based Secondary Prevention Therapies in Coronary Artery Disease , 2006, Circulation.

[15]  S. Solomon,et al.  Sex Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis in a Broad Spectrum of Patients With Heart Failure: Results of the Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) Program , 2007, Circulation.

[16]  B. Löwe,et al.  Depression profile in patients with and without chronic heart failure. , 2008, Journal of affective disorders.

[17]  D. Moser,et al.  Relationship of depressive symptoms to the impact of physical symptoms on functional status in women with heart failure. , 2009, American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

[18]  L. Køber,et al.  Persistent Use of Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy in Heart Failure Is Associated With Improved Outcomes , 2007, Circulation.

[19]  D. Moser,et al.  Correlates of fatigue in patients with heart failure. , 2008, Progress in cardiovascular nursing.

[20]  L. Erhardt,et al.  Non‐compliance and knowledge of prescribed medication in elderly patients with heart failure , 1999, European journal of heart failure.

[21]  Tiny Jaarsma,et al.  Compliance in heart failure patients: the importance of knowledge and beliefs. , 2006, European heart journal.

[22]  S. Yusuf,et al.  Acute precipitants of congestive heart failure exacerbations. , 2001, Archives of internal medicine.

[23]  J. McMurray,et al.  Patients strategies for managing medication for chronic heart failure. , 2006, International journal of cardiology.

[24]  G. Fonarow,et al.  Compliance Behaviors of Elderly Patients With Advanced Heart Failure , 2003, The Journal of cardiovascular nursing.

[25]  S. Payne,et al.  Prevalence of symptoms in a community-based sample of heart failure patients. , 2006, Journal of pain and symptom management.

[26]  A. Hoes,et al.  Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure: executive summary (update 2005): The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Heart Failure of the European Society of Cardiology. , 2005, European heart journal.

[27]  C. Voils,et al.  The effects of antidepressant medication adherence as well as psychosocial and clinical factors on depression outcome among older adults , 2008, International journal of geriatric psychiatry.

[28]  M. Pfeffer,et al.  Clinical features and contemporary management of patients with low and preserved ejection fraction heart failure: baseline characteristics of patients in the Candesartan in Heart failure—Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programme , 2003, European journal of heart failure.

[29]  K. Dracup,et al.  Relationship between psychosocial variables and compliance in patients with heart failure. , 2001, Heart & lung : the journal of critical care.

[30]  G. Fonarow,et al.  Freedom from congestion predicts good survival despite previous class IV symptoms of heart failure. , 2000, American heart journal.

[31]  A. Wu,et al.  Correlates and Predictors of Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: Overview of Published Literature , 2002, Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes.

[32]  Inger Ekman,et al.  Adherence and perception of medication in patients with chronic heart failure during a five-year randomised trial. , 2006, Patient education and counseling.

[33]  M. Pfeffer,et al.  Adherence to candesartan and placebo and outcomes in chronic heart failure in the CHARM programme: double-blind, randomised, controlled clinical trial , 2005, The Lancet.

[34]  Jia-Rong Wu,et al.  Medication adherence in patients who have heart failure: a review of the literature. , 2008, The Nursing clinics of North America.

[35]  V. Hasselblad,et al.  Patients with CHF and depression have greater risk of mortality and morbidity than patients without depression. , 2002, Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

[36]  J. Avorn,et al.  Noncompliance with congestive heart failure therapy in the elderly. , 1994, Archives of internal medicine.

[37]  Jia-Rong Wu,et al.  Predictors of medication adherence using a multidimensional adherence model in patients with heart failure. , 2008, Journal of cardiac failure.

[38]  Jia-Rong Wu,et al.  Factors influencing medication adherence in patients with heart failure. , 2008, Heart & lung : the journal of critical care.

[39]  K. Dracup,et al.  Usefulness of a history of tobacco and alcohol use in predicting multiple heart failure readmissions among veterans. , 2000, The American journal of cardiology.