ArticleJournal of cardiac failure2010
Medication adherence is a mediator of the relationship between ethnicity and event-free survival in patients with heart failure.
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- Psychosocial predictors of health behavior adherence in heart-failure patients with comorbid depression: a secondary analysis of the Hopeful Heart trial.BMC psychology · 2024Trial
- Health Literacy Mediates the Relationship Between Age and Health Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure.Circulation. Heart failure · 2016Trial
- Impact of ethnicity on long-term mortality following hospitalization for acute decompensated heart failure: a retrospective cohort study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Article
- Heart Failure Beyond the Diagnosis: A Narrative Review of Patients' Perspectives on Daily Life and Challenges.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Precipitating Factors for Hospitalization with Heart Failure: Prevalence and Clinical Impact Observations from the Gulf CARE (Gulf aCute heArt failuRe rEgistry).Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2020Article
- A perspective on nonadherence to drug therapy: psychological barriers and strategies to overcome nonadherence.Patient preference and adherence · 2018Review
- The Impact of Race and Neighborhood Racial Composition on Preventable Readmissions for Diabetic Medicare Home Health Beneficiaries.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2017Article
- Financial strain is associated with medication nonadherence and worse self-rated health among cardiovascular patients.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2017Article
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- Medication Nonadherence Before Hospitalization for Acute Cardiac Events.Journal of health communication · 2015Article
- Medication adherence, depressive symptoms, and cardiac event-free survival in patients with heart failure.Journal of cardiac failure · 2013Article
- Cardiovascular risk.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2012Review
- Medication adherence: emerging use of technology.Current opinion in cardiology · 2011Review
- Medication Adherence Mediates the Relationship Between Heart Failure Symptoms and Cardiac Event-Free Survival in Patients With Heart Failure.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
- Emotion Regulation and Perceptions of Illness Coherence and Controllability on Regimen Adherence and Negative Cardiac Health Events in African American Women With Heart Failure.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
- Medication adherence mediates the relationship between marital status and cardiac event-free survival in patients with heart failure.Heart & lung : the journal of critical careArticle
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backgroundRehospitalization rates are higher in African American than Caucasian patients with heart failure (HF). The reasons for the disparity in outcomes between African Americans and Caucasians may relate to differences in medication adherence. To determine whether medication adherence is a mediator of the relationship between ethnicity and event-free survival in patients with HF. METHODS AND
resultsMedication adherence was monitored longitudinally in 135 HF patients using the Medication Event Monitoring System. Events (emergency department visits for HF exacerbation, HF and cardiac rehospitalization, and all-cause mortality) were obtained by interview and hospital data base review. A series of regression models and survival analyses was conducted to determine whether medication adherence mediated the relationship between ethnicity and event-free survival. Event-free survival was significantly worse in African Americans than Caucasians. Ethnicity was a predictor of medication adherence (P=.011). African Americans were 2.57 times more likely to experience an event than Caucasians (P=.026). Ethnicity was not a predictor of event-free survival after entering medication adherence in the model (P=.06).
conclusionsMedication adherence was a mediator of the relationship between ethnicity and event-free survival in this sample. Interventions designed to reduce barriers to medication adherence may decrease the disparity in outcomes.
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