Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Background: The extent to which common life transitions influence medication adherence among patients remains unknown. We examined whether retirement is associated with a change in adherence to medication in patients with hypertension or type 2 diabetes.
Methods: Participants in the Finnish Public Sector study were linked to national registers. We included data for the years 1994?2011. We identified and followed 3468 adult patients with hypertension and 412 adult patients with type 2 diabetes for medication adherence for the 3 years before their retirement and the 4 years after their retirement (mean follow-up 6.8 yr). Our primary outcome was proportion of patients with poor adherence to medication, which we defined as less than 40% of days covered by treatment. We determined these proportions before and after retirement using data from filled prescriptions.
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2013/09/30/cmaj.122010
Methods: Participants in the Finnish Public Sector study were linked to national registers. We included data for the years 1994?2011. We identified and followed 3468 adult patients with hypertension and 412 adult patients with type 2 diabetes for medication adherence for the 3 years before their retirement and the 4 years after their retirement (mean follow-up 6.8 yr). Our primary outcome was proportion of patients with poor adherence to medication, which we defined as less than 40% of days covered by treatment. We determined these proportions before and after retirement using data from filled prescriptions.
http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2013/09/30/cmaj.122010