Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Antihypertensive Medication Adherence in a Medicaid Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the relationship between social determinants of health (SDH) and medication adherence among Medicaid beneficiaries with hypertension.

Methods

We conducted a posthoc subgroup analysis of 3044 adult Medicaid beneficiaries who enrolled in a parent prospective cohort study and had a diagnosis of hypertension based on their Medicaid claims during a 24-month period before study enrollment. We calculated the proportion of days covered by at least one antihypertensive medication during the first 12 months after study enrollment using the prescription claims data. We measured numerous SDH at the time of study enrollment and we categorized our hypertension cohort into 4 social risk groups based on their response profiles to the SDH variables. We compar

SUBMITTER: Wilder ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8847233 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature