Trends in Initial Antihypertensive Medication Prescribing Among >2.8 Million Veterans Newly Diagnosed With Hypertension, 2000 to 2019
More than half of US Veterans diagnosed with hypertension with a pretreatment systolic BP ≥160 mm Hg were started on antihypertensive monotherapy. There are disparities between guideline-recommended first-line treatments and the actual regimens initiated for newly diagnosed Veterans with hypertension.
Authors
- William C. Cushman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-2972)
- April F. Mohanty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-9758)
- Joshua A. Jacobs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9621-9060)
- Catherine G. Derington (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-4607)
- Brandon Kyle Bellows (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1395-6047)
- Yizhe Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0773-1709)
- Daniel K. Addo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3450-6718)
- P. Michael Ho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7775-6266)
- Adam P. Bress (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2259-5039)
- Jaejin An (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3161-5732)
- Jordana B. Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-079X)
- Tao He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1510-8984)
Institutions
- Intermountain Healthcare (US)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (US)
- George E. Wahlen Department of VA Medical Center (US)
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American Heart Association
- Published
- 2024-10-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/jaha.124.036557
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.81