Associations Between Symptom Severity and Perceived Relatedness to Medication Adherence to Blood Pressure Treatment Adherence (Changing or Stopping Medications Due to Side Effects) and (n = 1,423)
| Symptom Severity | Perceived Related to Medication | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total with Symptom | Somewhat or Moderate | Big or Very Big | p | Unrelated to Meds | Related to Meds | p | |
| Any symptom | 1,423 | 811 | 612 | <0.001 | 769 | 654 | |
| No adherence issue | 1,090 (76.6%) | 664 (81.9%) | 426 (69.6%) | 661 (86.0%) | 429 (65.6%) | <0.001 | |
| Yes adherence issue | 333 (23.4%) | 147 (18.1%) | 186 (30.4%) | 108 (14.0%) | 225 (34.4%) | ||
| Tiredness | 1,102 | 812 | 290 | 0.006 | 905 | 197 | <0.001 |
| No adherence issue | 826 (75.0%) | 626 (77.1%) | 200 (69.0%) | 706 (78.0%) | 120 (60.9%) | ||
| Yes adherence issue | 276 (25.0%) | 186 (22.9%) | 90 (31.0%) | 199 (22.0%) | 77 (39.1%) | ||
| Dizziness | 675 | 560 | 115 | <0.001 | 442 | 233 | <0.001 |
| No adherence issue | 467 (69.2%) | 406 (72.5%) | 61 (53.0%) | 336 (76.0%) | 131 (56.2%) | ||
| Yes adherence issue | 208 (30.8%) | 154 (27.5%) | 54 (47.0%) | 106 (24.0%) | 102 (43.8%) | ||
| Leg swelling | 583 | 431 | 152 | 0.34 | 425 | 1,589 | <0.001 |
| No adherence issue | 435 (74.6%) | 326 (75.6%) | 109 (71.7%) | 339 (89.8%) | 96 (60.8%) | ||
| Yes adherence issue | 148 (25.4%) | 105 (24.4%) | 43 (28.3%) | 86 (20.2%) | 62 (39.2%) | ||
| Cough | 541 | 428 | 113 | 0.06 | 424 | 117 | <0.001 |
| No adherence issue | 392 (72.5%) | 318 (74.3%) | 74 (65.5%) | 323 (76.2%) | 69 (59.0%) | ||
| Yes adherence issue | 149 (27.5%) | 110 (25.7%) | 39 (34.5%) | 101 (23.8%) | 48 (41.0%) | ||
| Urinary frequency | 886 | 696 | 190 | 0.19 | 592 | 294 | 0.08 |
| No adherence issue | 662 (74.7%) | 527 (75.7%) | 135 (71.0%) | 453 (76.5%) | 209 (71.1%) | ||
| Yes adherence issue | 224 (25.3%) | 169 (24.3%) | 55 (29.0%) | 139 (23.5%) | 85 (28.9%) | ||
| Sexual symptoms | 384 | 242 | 142 | 0.07 | 278 | 106 | <0.001 |
| No adherence issue | 278 (72.4%) | 183 (75.6%) | 95 (66.9%) | 214 (77.0%) | 64 (60.4%) | ||
| Yes adherence issue | 106 (27.6%) | 59 (24.4%) | 47 (33.1%) | 64 (23.0%) | 42 (39.6%) | ||