[Assessment for antihypertensive drug intake in France in 2019 and adherence]

Abstract

Non-adherence to antihypertensive treatment is one of the critical contributors to sub-optimal blood pressure control. The French Society of Hypertension remembered that urine and serum biochemical detection of antihypertensive drugs could be useful in a patient with resistant hypertension. Talking to a patient with biochemically confirmed non-adherence to blood pressure-lowering therapy and repeating them improved adherence to drugs. Despite its usefulness, biochemical detection of antihypertensive drugs is not routinely effective in France as they are not reimbursed by French Medical Care, except in patients attending hospitals. The list of blood pressure-lowering drugs able to be biochemically detected in France and their modalities are recorded here.