Nonadherence

Asthma medication nonadherence due to cost has decreased over recent years but still impacted around one in six adults, according to results published in Thorax.

PHILADELPHIA — Black adults with glomerular diseases showed more medication nonadherence compared with white adults, according to study results presented at ASN Kidney Week, here.

Patients prescribed a higher number of overall medications had a lower probability of initiating or achieving optimal guideline-directed medical therapy for HF, despite higher risk for long-term outcomes, data show.

Revisiting reasons for patient refusal or physician choice not to prescribe oral anticoagulation could improve use of anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation at increased risk, researchers reported.

NEW ORLEANS — Baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, did not lower systolic BP compared with placebo at 8 weeks in patients with uncontrolled hypertension, but nonadherence may have been a factor, researchers reported.

For individuals prescribed antipsychotic medication, nonadherence, along with switching and stopping medication, was associated with increases in acute care utilization, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

Use of electronic monitoring systems helped identify prevalent medication nonadherence in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis taking pirfenidone, according to data published in ERJ Open Research.

Two analyses of large randomized controlled trials suggest that participants not taking medications as prescribed may influence treatment effects and impact study findings, researchers reported.

A group of retina specialists developed and published a new consensus-based classification system for nonadherence and nonpersistence to anti-VEGF therapies in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

Patients with glaucoma are more likely to report cost-related nonadherence compared with patients without glaucoma, according to research published in Ophthalmology Glaucoma.