May Measure Month 2022 in Italy: A Focus on Fixed-dose Combination, Therapeutic Adherence, and Medical Inertia in a Nationwide Survey.
Rita Del PintoClaudia Agabiti RoseiClaudio BorghiFranco CipolliniSantina CottoneGiuseppe Antonio De GiorgiAntonino Di GuardoMaurizio DugnaniBruno FabrisCristina GiannattasioGilberta GiacchettiPietro MinuzGiuseppe MulèPietro NazzaroGianfranco ParatiMarcello RattazziFrancesca SaladiniMassimo SalvettiRiccardo SarzaniCarmine SavoiaGiuliano TocciFranco VeglioMassimo VolpeVito VulpisGianluca BaldiniClaudio FerriMaria Lorenza MuiesanPublished in: High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension (2024)
This survey identified a remarkable degree of therapeutic inertia and poor patients' involvement in the therapeutic process and its monitoring in the examined population, underlining the importance of prevention campaigns to identify areas of unsatisfactory management of hypertension, to increase risk factors' awareness in the population with the final purpose of reducing cardiovascular risk.