Prescription Patterns for the Use of Antihypertensive Drugs for Primary Prevention Among Patients With Hypertension in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several antihypertensive drugs are available for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, existing evidence on prescription patterns was primarily generated among patients at high CVD risk with short-term follow-up, and failed to capture impacts of time and patient characteristics. Our objective was therefore to describe longitudinal prescription patterns for antihypertensive drugs for the primary prevention of CVD among patients with arterial hypertension in the United Kingdom.

Methods

This population-based cohort study used data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, included 660,545 patients with hypertension who initiated an antihypertensive drug between 1998 and 2018. Antihypertensive treatments were measured by drug class and d

SUBMITTER: Jiao T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8730500 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature