Adherence to candesartan and placebo and outcomes in chronic heart failure in the CHARM programme: double-blind, randomised, controlled clinical trial - PubMed
Good adherence to medication is associated with a lower risk of death than poor adherence in patients with CHF, irrespective of assigned treatment. This finding suggests that adherence is a marker for adherence to effective treatments other than study medications, or to other adherence...
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Fascinating studies. Mortality rate remains the same in patients with good adherence (> 80%) to either BP/ cholesterol meds or placebo.. It’s not what you take that matters; it’s the adherence to regimen!!