PTSD Patients Likely to Skip BP Meds

Jane Stevens 12/3/138:09 PM

Hypertensive patients with post-traumatic stress disorder missed significantly more doses of their blood pressure drugs than patients without PTSD, researchers found.

In a small study, 68% of hypertensive patients with positive screening results for PTSD on a primary care-oriented symptom assessment were judged to be nonadherent to their medications, versus 26% of hypertensive patients with no PTSD symptoms (P=0.001), according to Ian Kronish, MD, MPH, of Columbia University in New York City, and colleagues.

The study also showed a possible trend toward increasing nonadherence with more severe PTSD, the researchers reported online in JAMA Internal Medicine.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/AnxietyStress/43205

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