Heart patients who most frequently miss a dose of medication are more than twice as likely to suffer heart attack, stroke and death, a U.S. study found.
Study co-author Dr. Mary Whooley of the University of California at San Francisco found more than 8 percent of the 1,015 patients surveyed said they fail to take their medicine at least 25 percent of the time
The patients were then tracked for almost four years to see who died and who had survived a heart attack or stroke. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found those who admitted not taking their medication more than 25 percent of the time were 2.3 times more likely to suffer serious problems -- including death -- than those who did.
Almost 14 percent of patients who more regularly took their medications experienced cardiac events, compared with about 23 percent of those who more frequently skipped doses.
"Honestly, it’s not really rocket science," Whooley said in a statement. "It’s pretty intuitive that if you don’t take your medications, you won’t do as well."
从一份美国研究发现，不经常使用药物治疗的心脏病患者比那些使用药物治疗患者要更多经历心脏病发作，甚至死亡。
来自旧金山加利福尼亚大学的研究者Dr. Mary Whooley发现在调查中的1015名患者中超过8%的患者说，在一次治疗中至少有25%的患者采用药物治疗失败。
当病人被追访4年后就知道在心脏病发作中是采用哪种治疗的病人能够幸免于死亡了。发表在Archives of Internal Medicine一份研究表明，超过25%的病人没有采用药物治疗，但是采用药物治疗患者的2.3倍在面临着严重的问题包括死亡。
和23%不经常使用药物治疗的患者相比，差不多有14%的患者在有心脏病的状况下更多的采用药物治疗。
在一次陈述中，Whooley说，现在的科学不是非常发达，凭直觉如果不采用药物治疗，其他治疗方式的效果也不是很好。
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