Adherence to Pharmacotherapies After Heart Transplantation in Relation to Multimorbidity and Socioeconomic Position: A Nationwide Register-Based Study

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  • Rikke E. Mols
  • István Bakos
  • Brian B. Løgstrup
  • Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó
  • Gustafsson, Finn
  • Hans Eiskjær

No studies have examined the impact of multimorbidity and socioeconomic position (SEP) on adherence to the pharmacological therapies following heart transplantation (HTx). Using nationwide Danish registers, we tested the hypothesis that multimorbidity and SEP affect treatment patterns and adherence to pharmacological therapies in first-time HTx recipients. Pharmacological management included cost-free immunosuppressants and adjuvant medical treatment (preventive and hypertensive pharmacotherapies; loop diuretics). We enrolled 512 recipients. The median (IQR) age was 51 years (38–58 years) and 393 recipients (77%) were males. In recipients with at least two chronic diseases, prevalence of treatment with antihypertensive pharmacotherapies and loop diuretics was higher. The overall prevalence of adherence to treatment with tacrolimus or mycophenolate mofetil was at least 80%. Prevalence of adherence to preventive pharmacotherapies ranged between 65% and 95% and between 66% and 88% for antihypertensive pharmacotherapies and loop diuretics, respectively. In socioeconomically disadvantaged recipients, both the number of recipients treated with and adherence to cost-free everolimus, lipid modifying agents, angiotensin-converting enzyme/angiotensin II inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, and loop diuretics were lower. In recipients with multimorbidity, prevalence of treatment with antihypertensive pharmacotherapies and loop diuretics was higher. Among socioeconomically disadvantaged recipients, both number of patients treated with and adherence to cost-free everolimus and adjuvant pharmacotherapies were lower.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer11676
TidsskriftTransplant International
Vol/bind36
Antal sider13
ISSN0934-0874
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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Funding Information:
This study was ssupported by grants from The Karen Elise Jensen Foundation (July 2019) and The Helse Foundation (20-B-0155). The sponsor had no role in study design, data collection, analysis or interpretation of the data, writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

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Copyright © 2023 Mols, Bakos, Løgstrup, Horváth-Puhó, Gustafsson and Eiskjær.

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