{"id":30827,"date":"2017-04-18T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/?p=30827"},"modified":"2017-05-02T18:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:40:53","slug":"farmaci-usa-125-000-morti-anno-malati-non-li-prendono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/farmaci-usa-125-000-morti-anno-malati-non-li-prendono\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicines: Usa, 125,000 deaths per year among patients who do not take them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.medtopics.it\/periodici\/Articolo.6.2013\/immagini\/tabella1.jpg\" alt=\"Risultati immagini per compliance farmaco\" \/>Non-adherence to therapies, with patients who for the most varied reasons do not take the prescribed drugs, is an &#039;epidemic&#039; which causes 125,000 deaths a year in the USA alone.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times recalls this, citing a review published by Annals of Internal Medicine according to which for chronic diseases the rate reaches almost 50%.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10% of hospitalizations in the United States, the magazine points out, are due to the consequences of therapies not followed correctly. A third of kidney transplant patients don&#039;t take their anti-rejection drugs, the 41% of heart attack survivors don&#039;t keep their blood pressure under control, and half of children with asthma don&#039;t use their inhaler correctly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.respironews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/generici.jpg\" alt=\"Risultati immagini per compliance farmaco\" width=\"270\" height=\"184\" \/>Among the reasons there is the tendency not to take medicines when there are no more symptoms, explains Lisa Rosenbaum of Brigham and Women&#039;s Hospital in Boston, or even the view of pills as something &#039;unnatural&#039;, as in the case of a patient who before a heart attack had replaced statins with fish oil although there is no scientific evidence of effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is a constant pressure towards &#039;natural&#039; choices - explains the expert - and the emphasis on diet and exercise convince patients that there is no need for drugs&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/ita\/farmaci--usa--125-000-morti-anno-tra-malati-che-non-li-prendono\/43117110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">swissinfo.ch \u2013 18 APRIL 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/17\/well\/the-cost-of-not-taking-your-medicine.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The cost of not taking your medicine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22964778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Interventions to improve adherence to self-administered medications for chronic diseases in the United States: a systematic review.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"publication-title\" data-reactid=\"44\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/268513077_Interventions_for_enhancing_medication_adherence_Review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Interventions for enhancing medication adherence (Review)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMms1409015#t=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Beyond Belief \u2014 How People Feel about Taking Medications for Heart Disease<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quella della non aderenza alle terapie, con pazienti che per i motivi pi\u00f9 diversi non prendono i farmaci prescritti, \u00e8 una &#8216;epidemia&#8217; che fa 125mila morti l&#8217;anno solo negli Usa. Lo ricorda il New York Times, che cita una review pubblicata da Annals of Internal Medicine secondo cui per le malattie croniche il tasso arriva &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-30827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notizie","tag-ricette"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fedaiisf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}