{"id":4799,"date":"2014-10-24T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2014-10-24T15:33:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T22:33:33","slug":"the-benefits-of-medication-adherence-for-patients-with-coronary-artery-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/the-benefits-of-medication-adherence-for-patients-with-coronary-artery-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of Medication Adherence for patients with coronary artery disease."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More information from the good doctors of the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston: From a new study, reported in Medpage Today, seemingly a summation of 25 studies, mostly observational and retrospective in nature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthgrades.com\/physician\/dr-asaf-bitton-2l7l6\">Dr. Asaf Bitton<\/a>, offers that medication adherent patients of coronary artery disease have much better outcomes. We all know this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nI\u2019m going to read between the lines\u2026\u00a0 while there are several quoted statistics for several different medication regimes in the March 2013 release, it seems that the doctors have an eye toward the patients who are adherent in addition to the success of the medications.\u00a0 Though they don\u2019t seem to say it aloud, the doctors who did this study looked for, perhaps, the first time at the \u201chealthy adherer effect.\u201d\u00a0 They describe this as \u201cthe likelihood that adherent patients general live healthier lifestyles compared to other patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nThis makes a great deal of sense since those who care enough for their own health to be actively adherent are, by definition, not those who sit back and wait until somebody else does something to make them better, waiting for that time when they can eat bad foods, have a few drinks and maybe a cigarette. \u00a0The researchers didn\u2019t say that. But I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nYou\u2019ll apparently live longer, while lowering your healthcare costs if you take your meds as directed by your doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More information from the good doctors of the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston: From a new study, reported in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,53,13,15,17,19,20,21,66,24,25,26,28,33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medtexter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}