Aug 14, 2014: “If people took their medications as prescribed, diabetes would not evolve and worsen, blood pressure would normalize, cholesterol would be reduced dramatically, and the risk for severe health problems, such as heart attack or stroke, would be reduced. Patients would live longer and probably enjoy a higher quality of life.”

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Effective interventions that target patients at a broader array of nonadherence risk levels are thought to be essential to improving population adherence rates